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The verdict
“et” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,447) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,447
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs eat
Corpus desk
Index DE-et · et · German
et · rank #1,447 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,447
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Düsseldorf
Nearest frequency peer: Düsseldorf (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “et”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Zusammenarb…
Zusammenarbeit
98,557 corpus weight
- berichtet
berichtet
98,556 corpus weight
- Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
98,555 corpus weight
- et
et
98,554 corpus weight
- Familien
Familien
98,553 corpus weight
- Geburtstag
Geburtstag
98,552 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “et” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | et |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #1,447 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “et” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for et is neighbouring look-alikes ("EU", "Ex", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced […]. Frequency #1,447 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs eat".
et has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "EU", "Ex", "ey", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is et, spelled E-T.
Definition
- 1Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs eat
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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- "et" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "EU". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #1,447 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.