chiefs
The verdict
“chiefs” is an uncommon German word, ranked #50,372 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,372
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plural des Substantivs chief
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chiefs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʃiːfs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,372 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “chiefs” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for chiefs is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʃiːfs]. Corpus data places it at rank #50,372 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plural des Substantivs chief".
No misspelling variants are generated for chiefs in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is chiefs, spelled C-H-I-E-F-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs chief
Frequency rank: #50,372 in German
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Using “chiefs”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is C-H-I-E-F-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [tʃiːfs] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our German index: