SKA
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The verdict
“SKA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,271) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,271
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Square Kilometer Array
Corpus desk
Index DE-ska · SKA · German
SKA · rank #31,271 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,271
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sirup
Nearest frequency peer: Sirup (-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 „SKA“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Semestern
Semestern
68,734 corpus weight
- Serienmörder
Serienmörder
68,733 corpus weight
- shin
shin
68,732 corpus weight
- Sirup
Sirup
68,731 corpus weight
- SKA
SKA
68,730 corpus weight
- Spielhalle
Spielhalle
68,726 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „SKA“ 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 | SKA |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „SKA“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for SKA is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #31,271 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Abkürzung für Square Kilometer Array".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for SKA, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 SKA, spelled S-K-A.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Square Kilometer Array
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how SKA appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es ist ein Riesenteleskop für Radiowellen, das Astronomen gegenwärtig planen. Ebenso wie bei ähnlichen Vorläuferprojekten geht es nicht um eine einzelne Antenne. Vielmehr umfasst das «Square Kilometer Array», kurz SKA, 3000 miteinander verbundene Parabolantennen. Sie sollen sich über Ländergrenzen hinweg ersterechen, angeordnet auf einer riesigen Spirale…
The SKA will address fundamental unanswered questions about our Universe.
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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