dips

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The verdict

“dips” is uncommon German (frequency #85,127 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,127
frequency rank, German
2,764
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs dip

Corpus desk

Index DE-dips · dips · German

dips · rank #85,127 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,127
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,764
  • PHOTO-FINISH dla

Nearest frequency peer: dla (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „dips“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dips“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for dips
PropertyValue
Headworddips
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters4
Frequency rank#85,127
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „dips“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.dipsfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „dla“ (#85,128), „DINK“ (#85,125), „Dobermann“ (#85,129). Unter 2,764 „D“-Lemmata liegt „dips“ bei #85,127. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

dips is uncommon German at frequency #85,127 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs dip".

No generated misspelling entries exist for dips in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is dips, spelled D-I-P-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs dip

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dips"?
"dips" is spelled D-I-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "dips" mean?
As a noun, "dips" means: Plural des Substantivs dip
How do you pronounce "dips"?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dips", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

DINK#85,125chop#85,076exam#85,201Fenn#85,219

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list