chiefs
[tʃiːfs]
The verdict
“chiefs” is uncommon German (frequency #50,372 among 1,273 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,372
- frequency rank, German
- 1,273
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs chief
Corpus desk
Index DE-chiefs · chiefs · German
chiefs · rank #50,372 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,372
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,273
- PHOTO-FINISH Chia
Nearest frequency peer: Chia (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „chiefs“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- charakteris…
charakterisierte
49,632 corpus weight
- chemisches
chemisches
49,631 corpus weight
- Chia
Chia
49,630 corpus weight
- chiefs
chiefs
49,629 corpus weight
- CIO
CIO
49,628 corpus weight
- comme
comme
49,625 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „chiefs“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „chiefs“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
chiefs is uncommon German at frequency #50,372 among 1,273 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [tʃiːfs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs chief".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chiefs, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is chiefs, spelled C-H-I-E-F-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs chief
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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