deem
[diːm]
The verdict
“deem” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. 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) - annehmen, meinen
Corpus desk
Index DE-deem · deem · German
deem · 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 | deem |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [diːm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „deem“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
deem is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed [diːm]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for deem, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is deem, spelled D-E-E-M.
Definition
- 1annehmen, meinen
- 2ansehen als, betrachten als, erachten als/für, halten für
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deem appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We deemed them to be essential.
"Speaking from Cairo where he was meeting with Egypt’s interim president Adli Mansour, Abbas said that no Israeli settlers or border forces could remain in a future Palestinian state and that Palestinians deem illegal all Jewish settlement building beyond the Green Line."
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.