dic
[dik]
The verdict
“dic” is uncommon German (frequency #51,236 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,236
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dir
Corpus desk
Index DE-dic · dic · German
dic · rank #51,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,236
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 45,632
- PHOTO-FINISH dezente
Nearest frequency peer: dezente (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- desjenigen
desjenigen
48,768 corpus weight
- Deutschtürk…
Deutschtürken
48,767 corpus weight
- dezente
dezente
48,766 corpus weight
- dic
dic
48,765 corpus weight
- didaktischen
didaktischen
48,764 corpus weight
- dienende
dienende
48,762 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dic” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dic |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [dik] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #51,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dic” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
dic is uncommon German at frequency #51,236 among 45,632 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [dik]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dir".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dic, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 dic, spelled D-I-C.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs dir
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.