eth
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The verdict
“eth” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,205) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,205
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der
Corpus desk
Index DE-eth · eth · German
eth · rank #19,205 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,205
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Ersatzteile
Nearest frequency peer: Ersatzteile (-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 “eth”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- erfand
erfand
80,799 corpus weight
- erringen
erringen
80,798 corpus weight
- Ersatzteile
Ersatzteile
80,797 corpus weight
- eth
eth
80,796 corpus weight
- Evakuierung
Evakuierung
80,795 corpus weight
- fact
fact
80,794 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “eth” 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 | eth |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “eth” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eth is neighbouring look-alikes ("EU", "Ex", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer pronounced […]. Frequency #19,205 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "der".
No misspelling variants are generated for eth in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "EU", "Ex", "ey", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is eth, spelled E-T-H.
Definition
- 1der
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Eth torisme ei eth motor dera economia mès quan non i a nhèu tot se complique."
Synonyms
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "eth", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
You've looked up "eth". Here's where to go from here.
- "eth" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "EU". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #19,205 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
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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.