Kopf
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#434
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Kopf is aGermannoun. It means: oberster beziehungsweise vorderster Körperteil eines Menschen oder Tieres Pronounced [kɔp͡f]. It ranks #434 in German word frequency. Often confused with KP and KPD.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kopf |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔp͡f] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Kopf is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kɔp͡f]. Corpus data places it at rank #434 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 Kopf, with forms such as "kkopf", "kofp", and "kopff". 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, "KP", "KPD", "kot", 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 Kopf, spelled K-O-P-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1oberster beziehungsweise vorderster Körperteil eines Menschen oder Tieres
- 2das oberste Mitglied einer Organisation
- 3Wuchsform von Gemüsepflanzen wie dem Kohl
- 4stumpfes Ende von Nägeln, Schrauben, Nadeln
- 5runder Teil einer Note in der Musik
- 6Ende eines Werkzeuges wie eines Hammers oder Schlägels
- 7oberer, vom übrigen Text getrennter Teil einer beschriebenen Seite
- 8jene Seite einer Münze, die eine Abbildung einer Person zeigt
- 9Bauteil, Gerät, Maschinenteil, das aufgesetzt werden kann
- 10oberster Teil eines dreieckigen Segels
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: kkopf,kofp,kopff,koppf,kpof,okpf
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Kopf
Misspelling Variants of "Kopf"
Frequency rank: #434 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter K in our German index: