deed
[diːd]
The verdict
“deed” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tat, Handlung
Corpus desk
Index DE-deed · deed · German
deed · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deed |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [diːd] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „deed“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
deed is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [diːd]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for deed in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is deed, spelled D-E-E-D.
Definition
- 1Tat, Handlung
- 2? Heldentat, Großtat
- 3Vertragsurkunde, Urkunde, Dokument
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All the deeds done in the world are mad.
They taught their children to be kind and to do good deeds.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.