dry
[dɹaɪ]
The verdict
“dry” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,545) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,545
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - trocken
Corpus desk
Index DE-dry · dry · German
dry · rank #29,545 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,545
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Dramatiker
Nearest frequency peer: Dramatiker (-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 „dry“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- differenzie…
differenzierter
70,459 corpus weight
- dominanten
dominanten
70,458 corpus weight
- Dramatiker
Dramatiker
70,457 corpus weight
- dry
dry
70,456 corpus weight
- durchgefall…
durchgefallen
70,455 corpus weight
- dynamischer
dynamischer
70,454 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „dry“ 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 | dry |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [dɹaɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „dry“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for dry is neighbouring look-alikes ("du", "Ds", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [dɹaɪ]. Frequency #29,545 among 2,764 “D” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
dry has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "du", "Ds", "DW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is dry, spelled D-R-Y.
Definition
- 1trocken
- 2nicht unter, in oder auf Wasser
- 3gleichgültig, emotionslos, kalt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is very dry.
It was good to be on dry land.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).