Klon
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,810
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Klon is aGermannoun. It means: Biologie, Genetik: Gesamtheit aller genetisch identischen Kopien eines Individuums Pronounced [kloːn]. Often confused with ko and kot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Klon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kloːn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Klon is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kloːn]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,810 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Klon, with forms such as "kklon", "kllon", and "klno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ko", "kot", "kom", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Klon, spelled K-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Biologie, Genetik: Gesamtheit aller genetisch identischen Kopien eines Individuums
- 2eine einzelne dieser Kopien
- 3die Nachbildung eines Originals, die die wesentlichen Merkmale besitzt, aber dennoch anders ist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kklon,kllon,klno,klonn,koln,lkon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Klon
Misspelling Variants of "Klon"
Frequency rank: #27,810 in German
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