kitt
[kɪt]
The verdict
“kitt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,619) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,619
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kitten
Corpus desk
Index DE-kitt · kitt · German
kitt · rank #42,619 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,619
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kirchenglocken
Nearest frequency peer: Kirchenglocken (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „kitt“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- kinderlose
kinderlose
57,385 corpus weight
- Kindermädch…
Kindermädchen
57,384 corpus weight
- Kirchengloc…
Kirchenglocken
57,383 corpus weight
- kitt
kitt
57,382 corpus weight
- klassischem
klassischem
57,380 corpus weight
- Kleingruppen
Kleingruppen
57,379 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kitt“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kitt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kɪt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kitt“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kitt is neighbouring look-alikes ("KT", "kot", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [kɪt]. Frequency #42,619 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kitten".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for kitt, with forms such as "iktt", "kkitt", and "ktit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KT", "kot", "KTM", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is kitt, spelled K-I-T-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kitten
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iktt
- kkitt
- ktit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kitt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "kitt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).