Ei
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,110
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Ei is aGermannoun. It means: eine Keimzelle Pronounced [aɪ̯]. It ranks #3,110 in German word frequency. Often confused with es and er.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɪ̯] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #3,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Ei is 2 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aɪ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,110 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ei in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "er", "EU", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Ei, spelled E-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Keimzelle
- 2ein Schalengebilde, in dem sich der Embryo oviparer Tierarten (zum Beispiel Vögel) bildet
- 3Inneres von Eiern^([2]) als Nahrungsmittel
- 4ovales, dreidimensionales und entlang einer Achse symmetrisches Gebilde
- 5Spielball und andere rundliche Gegenstände in annähernder Eiform, die sich zum Spielen eignen
- 6die Hoden
- 7das Ei des Kolumbus, realisierbarer Gedanke, realisierbare Idee, brauchbare Erfindung, Höhepunkt, Kern, Kerngedanke
- 8Ausrede, Erfindung, Frechheit, Höhepunkt, Scheinargument, Sinnlosigkeit, Spitzfindigkeit, Unverfrorenheit, Unverschämtheit
- 9für Währungseinheit, Deutsche Mark, Euro, Franken und Ähnliches
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Frequency rank: #3,110 in German
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