kos
[koːs]
The verdict
“kos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,463) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,463
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kosen
Corpus desk
Index DE-kos · kos · German
kos · rank #36,463 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,463
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Konversion
Nearest frequency peer: Konversion (-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 „kos“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- konventione…
konventioneller
63,540 corpus weight
- Konversion
Konversion
63,539 corpus weight
- kos
kos
63,538 corpus weight
- Kreuzzüge
Kreuzzüge
63,537 corpus weight
- Kriegsschiff
Kriegsschiff
63,536 corpus weight
- Krähe
Krähe
63,535 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kos“ 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 | kos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [koːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kos“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kos is neighbouring look-alikes ("KW", "KV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [koːs]. Frequency #36,463 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kosen".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kos, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is kos, spelled K-O-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs kosen
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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