dish
[diʃ]
The verdict
“dish” is uncommon German (frequency #82,662 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,662
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Präsens Konjunktiv Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform di "wissen"
Corpus desk
Index DE-dish · dish · German
dish · rank #82,662 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,662
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dirnen
Nearest frequency peer: Dirnen (-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 „dish“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- differences
differences
17,341 corpus weight
- Dirnen
Dirnen
17,340 corpus weight
- dish
dish
17,339 corpus weight
- Diskuswurf
Diskuswurf
17,338 corpus weight
- Dokumentati…
Dokumentationszentrum
17,337 corpus weight
- dpi
dpi
17,335 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „dish“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dish |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [diʃ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „dish“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
dish is uncommon German at frequency #82,662 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed [diʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Präsens Konjunktiv Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform di "wissen"".
dish has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is dish, spelled D-I-S-H.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Präsens Konjunktiv Nichtadmirativ Aktiv zur Verbform di "wissen"
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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