kWh
The verdict
“kWh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,958) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,958
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Einheitssymbol für Kilowattstunde (Maßeinheit für Arbeit und Energie)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kwh · kWh · German
kWh · rank #12,958 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,958
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH kräftige
Nearest frequency peer: kräftige (-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 „kWh“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Kontroverse
Kontroverse
87,046 corpus weight
- Krankenhäus…
Krankenhäusern
87,045 corpus weight
- kräftige
kräftige
87,044 corpus weight
- kWh
kWh
87,043 corpus weight
- Larry
Larry
87,042 corpus weight
- Lebensstil
Lebensstil
87,041 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „kWh“ 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 | kWh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „kWh“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kWh is neighbouring look-alikes ("KZ", "K", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #12,958 among 4,158 “K” headwords. Gloss: "Einheitssymbol für Kilowattstunde (Maßeinheit für Arbeit und Energie)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kWh, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "KZ", "K", "km", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is kWh, spelled K-W-H.
Definition
- 1Einheitssymbol für Kilowattstunde (Maßeinheit für Arbeit und Energie)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kWh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 kWh (Kilowattstunde) = 1 kW · 1 h = 1000 W · 1 h = 1000 Wh = 1000 W · 3600 s = 3,6 · 10⁶ J = 3,6 MJ
Mit der Energiemenge 1 kWh kann man zum Beispiel 50 Stunden am Laptop arbeiten oder sieben Stunden fernsehen.
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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