greys
[ɡɹeɪz]
The verdict
“greys” is uncommon German (frequency #89,021 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,021
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs grey
Corpus desk
Index DE-greys · greys · German
greys · rank #89,021 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,021
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Grenzregionen
Nearest frequency peer: Grenzregionen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „greys“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Grammatiken
Grammatiken
10,985 corpus weight
- Grenzregion…
Grenzregionen
10,981 corpus weight
- greys
greys
10,980 corpus weight
- griffig
griffig
10,979 corpus weight
- Griss
Griss
10,978 corpus weight
- Grundbesitz…
Grundbesitzes
10,976 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „greys“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | greys |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ɡɹeɪz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „greys“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
greys is uncommon German at frequency #89,021 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ɡɹeɪz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs grey".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for greys, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 greys, spelled G-R-E-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs grey
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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