kot
[kɔt]
The verdict
“kot” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,056) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,056
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Katze, Kater (Felis silvestris)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kot · kot · German
kot · rank #17,056 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,056
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kontroversen
Nearest frequency peer: Kontroversen (-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 „kot“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- konkretes
konkretes
82,948 corpus weight
- Konter
Konter
82,947 corpus weight
- Kontroversen
Kontroversen
82,946 corpus weight
- kot
kot
82,945 corpus weight
- Kreisliga
Kreisliga
82,944 corpus weight
- Kriegsverbr…
Kriegsverbrechen
82,943 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kot“ 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 | kot |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kɔt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kot“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kot is neighbouring look-alikes ("KW", "KV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [kɔt]. Frequency #17,056 among 4,158 “K” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for kot, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KW", "KV", "KZ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is kot, spelled K-O-T.
Definition
- 1Katze, Kater (Felis silvestris)
- 2Katze
- 3Rekrut, Fuchs
- 4Hase (Lepus)
- 5Kattanker
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Po balkonie spaceruje czarny kot.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).