TK
[teːˈkaː]
The verdict
“TK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,433) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,433
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abkürzung für Tiefkühl-
Corpus desk
Index DE-tk · TK · German
TK · rank #14,433 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,433
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Titanic
Nearest frequency peer: Titanic (-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 „TK“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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85,571 corpus weight
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85,570 corpus weight
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Titanic
85,569 corpus weight
- TK
TK
85,568 corpus weight
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85,566 corpus weight
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85,565 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „TK“ 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 | TK |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [teːˈkaː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #14,433 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „TK“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for TK is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [teːˈkaː]. Frequency #14,433 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 12 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for TK in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is TK, spelled T-K.
Definition
- 1Abkürzung für Tiefkühl-
- 2Abkürzung für Toilettenkabine
- 3Abkürzung für Trilaterale Kommission
- 4Abkürzung für Topografische Karte
- 5Abkürzung für Tarifkommission
- 6Abkürzung für Turkish Airlines (IATA-Code)
- 7Abkürzung für Techniker Krankenkasse
- 8Abkürzung für Technische Kommission
- 9Abkürzung für Technisches Kompetenzzentrum
- 10Abkürzung für Telefonkonferenz
- 11Abkürzung für Telekommunikation
- 12Abkürzung für Teilkasko-
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how TK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mit dem Flug TK-1890 fliegen wir am 20. Juni von Wien nach Istanbul.
Somit ist er von überall über die Firmen-TK-Anlage erreichbar.
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.