Lk
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The verdict
“Lk” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,652) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,652
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lukasevangelium
Corpus desk
Index DE-lk · Lk · German
Lk · rank #13,652 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,652
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Lieferungen
Nearest frequency peer: Lieferungen (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “Lk”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Lektion
Lektion
86,353 corpus weight
- lernten
lernten
86,352 corpus weight
- Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg
86,351 corpus weight
- Lieferungen
Lieferungen
86,350 corpus weight
- Lk
Lk
86,349 corpus weight
- Meisterwerk
Meisterwerk
86,345 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Lk” against nearest ranked German headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Lk |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #13,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Lk” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Lk is neighbouring look-alikes ("LP", "lo", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #13,652 among 2,640 “L” headwords. Gloss: "Lukasevangelium".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Lk, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "lo", "ln", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Lk, spelled L-K.
Definition
- 1Lukasevangelium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Lk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lk 1,1-4,13 behandelt die Vorgeschichte Jesu.
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.