REX
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The verdict
“REX” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,739) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,739
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Deutscher Rentenkursindex
Corpus desk
Index DE-rex · REX · German
REX · rank #11,739 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,739
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Renovierung
Nearest frequency peer: Renovierung (-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 „REX“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- RegE
RegE
88,265 corpus weight
- renoviert
renoviert
88,264 corpus weight
- Renovierung
Renovierung
88,263 corpus weight
- REX
REX
88,262 corpus weight
- riesiger
riesiger
88,261 corpus weight
- rückgängig
rückgängig
88,260 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „REX“ 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 | REX |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „REX“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for REX is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #11,739 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Deutscher Rentenkursindex".
REX has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is REX, spelled R-E-X.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Deutscher Rentenkursindex
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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