KPD
[kaːpeːˈdeː]
The verdict
“KPD” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,613) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,613
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands
Corpus desk
Index DE-kpd · KPD · German
KPD · rank #14,613 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,613
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kotzt
Nearest frequency peer: kotzt (-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 „KPD“
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85,389 corpus weight
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85,388 corpus weight
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85,387 corpus weight
- Kärntner
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85,386 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „KPD“ 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 | KPD |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [kaːpeːˈdeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „KPD“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for KPD is neighbouring look-alikes ("KW", "KV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [kaːpeːˈdeː]. Frequency #14,613 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for KPD, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KW", "KV", "KZ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is KPD, spelled K-P-D.
Definition
- 1Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how KPD appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Nach 1968 wurde die Deutsche Kommunistische Partei (DKP) stillschweigend zugelassen. Obwohl ihre Ähnlichkeit mit der verbotenen KPD nicht zu übersehen war, wurde sie nicht zur Ersatzorganisation erklärt.“
„Das von der KPD erwirkte Volksbegehren hatte dieses Thema popularisiert und das politische Klima vergiftet.“
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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