Rio
[ˈʁiːo]
The verdict
“Rio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,154) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,154
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kurzform für Rio de Janeiro
Corpus desk
Index DE-rio · Rio · German
Rio · rank #4,154 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,154
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH reiche
Nearest frequency peer: reiche (-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 „Rio“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- rechtlichen
rechtlichen
95,850 corpus weight
- reiche
reiche
95,848 corpus weight
- Rio
Rio
95,847 corpus weight
- samt
samt
95,846 corpus weight
- Sarah
Sarah
95,845 corpus weight
- schlechtes
schlechtes
95,844 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Rio“ 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 | Rio |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈʁiːo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Rio“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Rio is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈʁiːo]. Frequency #4,154 among 2,984 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Rio in our index, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Rio, spelled R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Kurzform für Rio de Janeiro
- 2eine Gemeinde in Griechenland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Rio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kriminalität in den Armenvierteln („Favelas“) ist ein großes Problem in Rio.
Rio ist ein wichtiger Verkehrsknotenpunkt des Peloponnes.
Synonyms
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Rio", not the corpus desk frequency band.