jed
[jɛt]
The verdict
“jed” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,721) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,721
- frequency rank, German
- 699
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gesundheitsschädliche oder potenziell tödliche Substanz; Gift
Corpus desk
Index DE-jed · jed · German
jed · rank #44,721 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,721
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 699
- PHOTO-FINISH jelly
Nearest frequency peer: jelly (+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 „jed“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Jakub
Jakub
55,284 corpus weight
- Jannik
Jannik
55,283 corpus weight
- Japanerin
Japanerin
55,282 corpus weight
- jed
jed
55,280 corpus weight
- jelly
jelly
55,279 corpus weight
- Judoka
Judoka
55,277 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „jed“ 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 | jed |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [jɛt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „jed“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jed is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "Jg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [jɛt]. Frequency #44,721 among 699 “J” headwords. Gloss: "gesundheitsschädliche oder potenziell tödliche Substanz; Gift".
No misspelling variants are generated for jed in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "Jg", "JS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is jed, spelled J-E-D.
Definition
- 1gesundheitsschädliche oder potenziell tödliche Substanz; Gift
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how jed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tahle chemikálie je prudký jed.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).