quo
[ku̯o]
The verdict
“quo” sits in 11 confusable pairs (corpus #10,345) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,345
- frequency rank, German
- 216
- “Q” headwords
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - was / welche(r) unbestimmte/noch unbekannte Sache/Sachverhalt — gefragt wird nicht nach einer konkreten Person oder Sache, dafür: qua Bedeutung [2])
Corpus desk
Index DE-quo · quo · German
quo · rank #10,345 · 0 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,345
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 216
- PHOTO-FINISH Qualitäten
Nearest frequency peer: Qualitäten (-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 „quo“
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Qualitäten
89,657 corpus weight
- quo
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89,656 corpus weight
- Rassen
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89,655 corpus weight
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89,654 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „quo“ 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 | quo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ku̯o] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „quo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for quo is neighbouring look-alikes ("Quote", "Q", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ku̯o]. Frequency #10,345 among 216 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "was / welche(r) unbestimmte/noch unbekannte Sache/Sachverhalt — gefragt wird nicht nach einer konkreten Person oder Sache, dafür: qua Bedeutung [2])".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for quo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Quote", "Q", "qm", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is quo, spelled Q-U-O.
Definition
- 1was / welche(r) unbestimmte/noch unbekannte Sache/Sachverhalt — gefragt wird nicht nach einer konkreten Person oder Sache, dafür: qua Bedeutung [2])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how quo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quo esas to?
Quo eventis en ica domo hiere?
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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