RKI
[ɛʁkaːˈʔiː]
The verdict
“RKI” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,448) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,448
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Robert Koch-Institut
Corpus desk
Index DE-rki · RKI · German
RKI · rank #43,448 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,448
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH rituellen
Nearest frequency peer: rituellen (-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 „RKI“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Rieder
Rieder
56,555 corpus weight
- rituellen
rituellen
56,554 corpus weight
- RKI
RKI
56,553 corpus weight
- Rodung
Rodung
56,552 corpus weight
- rotierenden
rotierenden
56,551 corpus weight
- Ruhetag
Ruhetag
56,550 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „RKI“ 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 | RKI |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ɛʁkaːˈʔiː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „RKI“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for RKI is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ɛʁkaːˈʔiː]. Frequency #43,448 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Robert Koch-Institut".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for RKI, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is RKI, spelled R-K-I.
Definition
- 1Robert Koch-Institut
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how RKI appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das RKI ist die zentrale Einrichtung der Bundesregierung auf dem Gebiet der Krankheitsüberwachung und -prävention […].“
„Dutzende [Länder] gelten laut RKI aber nach wie vor als Risikogebiete.“
This word in other languages
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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