qkm

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The verdict

“qkm” is uncommon German (frequency #77,210 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,210
frequency rank, German
216
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quadratkilometer

Corpus desk

Index DE-qkm · qkm · German

qkm · rank #77,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,210
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 216
  • PHOTO-FINISH putnam

Nearest frequency peer: putnam (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „qkm“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „qkm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for qkm
PropertyValue
Headwordqkm
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAbbreviation
IPA[…]
Letters3
Frequency rank#77,210
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „qkm“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.qkmfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „putnam“ (#77,209), „Qualitätsmedien“ (#77,211), „Pusteblume“ (#77,208). Unter 216 „Q“-Lemmata liegt „qkm“ bei #77,210. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

qkm is uncommon German at frequency #77,210 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quadratkilometer".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for qkm, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented 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 qkm, spelled Q-K-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quadratkilometer

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how qkm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Fläche = 10 qkm
  2. „Von den Provinzen des Küstenstaates Mosambik ragt die Provinz Tete am weitesten in den afrikanischen Kontinent hinein. Das fast die Fläche der ehemaligen DDR umfassende, 100724 qkm große Gebiet wird von Simbabwe im Westen, Sambia im Norden und Malawi im Osten umschlossen.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "qkm"?
"qkm" is spelled Q-K-M. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "qkm" mean?
As an abbreviation, "qkm" means: Quadratkilometer
How do you pronounce "qkm"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "qkm" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "qkm", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

reo#77,242OGs#77,134Nyx#77,125SDR#77,305

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list