3
[dʁaɪ̯]
The verdict
“3” sits in 2 confusable pairs (corpus #93) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #93
- frequency rank, German
- 1
- letter
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Drei darstellt
Corpus desk
Index DE-3 · 3 · German
3 · rank #93 · 0 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #93
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "3" thin
- PHOTO-FINISH Ihre
Nearest frequency peer: Ihre (-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 „3“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- gibt
gibt
99,911 corpus weight
- hatte
hatte
99,910 corpus weight
- Ihre
Ihre
99,909 corpus weight
- 3
3
99,908 corpus weight
- dieser
dieser
99,907 corpus weight
- gegen
gegen
99,906 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „3“ 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 | 3 |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [dʁaɪ̯] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #93 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „3“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 3 is neighbouring look-alikes ("3D", "drei"), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [dʁaɪ̯]. Frequency #93. Gloss: "eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Drei darstellt".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for 3, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "3D", "drei", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is 3, spelled 3.
Definition
- 1eine arabische Ziffer (ein Zahlzeichen), welche die Zahl Drei darstellt
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how 3 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Straßenbahnlinie 13 hat eine Streckenlänge von 10,7 Km.
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.