Q
Letters
1 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,458
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
Q is aGermancharacter. It means: 17. Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets, entspricht dem frühgriechischen Qoppa (später verschmolzen mit Kappa); kommt im Deutschen nur in der Verbindung qu (IPA: [kv], [kw]) vor Pronounced [kuː]. It ranks #4,458 in German word frequency. Often confused with qm and QR.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Q |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [kuː] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #4,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Q is 1 letters long, classified as acharacter, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kuː]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,458 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Q in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "qm", "QR", "Qi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Q, spelled Q, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 117. Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets, entspricht dem frühgriechischen Qoppa (später verschmolzen mit Kappa); kommt im Deutschen nur in der Verbindung qu (IPA: [kv], [kw]) vor
- 2römisches Zahlzeichen für 500 (das später zu D wurde)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #4,458 in German
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