Kongress
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,531
in German word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Kongress is aGermannoun. It means: Versammlung von Menschen, die wegen gemeinsamer Interessen zusammengekommen sind; Tagung, Versammlung Pronounced [kɔŋˈɡʁɛs]. It ranks #4,531 in German word frequency. Often confused with Kongresse and Kongresses.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kongress |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔŋˈɡʁɛs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kongress is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔŋˈɡʁɛs]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,531 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Kongress, with forms such as "kkongress", "knogress", and "kognress". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Kongresse", "Kongresses", "Kongressen", 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 Kongress, spelled K-O-N-G-R-E-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Versammlung von Menschen, die wegen gemeinsamer Interessen zusammengekommen sind; Tagung, Versammlung
- 2Parlament in den USA, das aus Senat und Repräsentantenhaus besteht
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkongress,knogress,kognress,kongerss,konggress,kongres,kongreß,kongrress,kongrses,konngress,konrgess,okngress
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kongress
Misspelling Variants of "Kongress"
Frequency rank: #4,531 in German
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