dass
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
dass is aGermanconj. It means: drückt eine Folge des Geschehens aus, Art und Weise oder Grad Pronounced [das]. It ranks #27 in German word frequency. Often confused with Ds and des.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dass |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conj |
| IPA | [das] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for dass is 4 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [das]. Corpus data places it at rank #27 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for dass, with forms such as "adss", "daß", and "ddass". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ds", "des", "day", 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 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 dass, spelled D-A-S-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1drückt eine Folge des Geschehens aus, Art und Weise oder Grad
- 2drückt eine Absicht, einen Zweck des Geschehens aus; , feierlich: auf dass
- 3zur Bildung von Objekt-, Subjekt- und Attributsätzen (jeweils ohne feste Bedeutung, steht nach Ausdrücken der Sicherheit)
- 4drückt das Fehlen eines bestimmten Umstandes aus
- 5drückt eine Einschränkung aus
- 6drückt einen Ersatz eines Umstands aus
- 7zum Ausdruck der unmittelbaren Vorzeitigkeit, ‚kurz nachdem‘
- 8drückt Grund/Ursache aus;
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adss,daß,ddass,dsas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for dass
Misspelling Variants of "dass"
Frequency rank: #27 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter D in our German index: