its
[ɪts]
The verdict
“its” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,388) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,388
- frequency rank, German
- 1,488
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sein
Corpus desk
Index DE-its · its · German
its · rank #9,388 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,388
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,488
- PHOTO-FINISH irgendeinen
Nearest frequency peer: irgendeinen (-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 „its“
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90,614 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „its“ 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 | its |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ɪts] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „its“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for its is neighbouring look-alikes ("ix", "IWF", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ɪts]. Frequency #9,388 among 1,488 “I” headwords. Gloss: "sein".
No misspelling variants are generated for its 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, "ix", "IWF", "ivy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is its, spelled I-T-S.
Definition
- 1sein
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how its appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cat eats its fodder.
This word in other languages
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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