div
[ɟɪf]
The verdict
“div” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,189) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,189
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ungewöhnliche, bewundernswerte Erscheinung; Wunder
Corpus desk
Index DE-div · div · German
div · rank #19,189 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,189
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Direktion
Nearest frequency peer: Direktion (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „div“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Detektiv
Detektiv
80,815 corpus weight
- Dialekte
Dialekte
80,814 corpus weight
- Direktion
Direktion
80,813 corpus weight
- div
div
80,812 corpus weight
- dringende
dringende
80,811 corpus weight
- due
due
80,810 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „div“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | div |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɟɪf] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „div“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for div is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "do", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ɟɪf]. Frequency #19,189 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Gloss: "ungewöhnliche, bewundernswerte Erscheinung; Wunder".
Zero misspellings are on record for div in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "do", "dm", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is div, spelled D-I-V.
Definition
- 1ungewöhnliche, bewundernswerte Erscheinung; Wunder
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how div appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To je div, že ještě žije.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).