deh
The verdict
“deh” is uncommon German (frequency #94,119 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as a numeral. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,119
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - zehn
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “deh” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
deh is uncommon German at frequency #94,119 among 45,632 “D” headwords, classed as anumeral. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zehn".
deh has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 deh, spelled D-E-H.
Definition
- 1zehn
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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Using “deh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is D-E-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.