Kor
[koːɐ̯]
The verdict
“Kor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,131) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,131
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in der Bibel vorkommendes Hohlmaß: 1 Kor = 10 Bat = ca. 400 l
Corpus desk
Index DE-kor · Kor · German
Kor · rank #32,131 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,131
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Koppeln
Nearest frequency peer: Koppeln (-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 „Kor“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kopfball
Kopfball
67,873 corpus weight
- kopfüber
kopfüber
67,872 corpus weight
- Koppeln
Koppeln
67,871 corpus weight
- Kor
Kor
67,870 corpus weight
- korrigiere
korrigiere
67,869 corpus weight
- kosmischen
kosmischen
67,868 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Kor“ 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 | Kor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [koːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Kor“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Kor is neighbouring look-alikes ("KW", "KV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [koːɐ̯]. Frequency #32,131 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "in der Bibel vorkommendes Hohlmaß: 1 Kor = 10 Bat = ca. 400 l".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kor, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KW", "KV", "KZ", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kor, spelled K-O-R.
Definition
- 1in der Bibel vorkommendes Hohlmaß: 1 Kor = 10 Bat = ca. 400 l
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Kor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der tägliche Unterhalt Salomos belief sich auf dreißig Kor Feinmehl, sechzig Kor gewöhnliches Mehl … - (1. Könige 5,2-3)
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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