Reh
[ʁeː]
The verdict
“Reh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,374) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,374
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im Wald lebender Wiederkäuer aus der Familie der Hirsche oder Cervidae
Corpus desk
Index DE-reh · Reh · German
Reh · rank #18,374 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,374
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Regenwald
Nearest frequency peer: Regenwald (-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 „Reh“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- ready
ready
81,631 corpus weight
- Regenwald
Regenwald
81,628 corpus weight
- Reh
Reh
81,627 corpus weight
- Reiseführer
Reiseführer
81,626 corpus weight
- RL
RL
81,625 corpus weight
- Rückzahlung
Rückzahlung
81,623 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Reh“ 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 | Reh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʁeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,374 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Reh“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Reh is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ʁeː]. Frequency #18,374 among 2,984 “R” headwords. Gloss: "im Wald lebender Wiederkäuer aus der Familie der Hirsche oder Cervidae".
Reh has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Reh, spelled R-E-H.
Definition
- 1im Wald lebender Wiederkäuer aus der Familie der Hirsche oder Cervidae
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Reh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Rehe vermehren sich schneller, als die Jäger sie schießen können.
„Zwei Rehe hatten sich auf einen komplett umzäunten und schneebedeckten Tennisplatz verirrt und fanden keinen Weg ins Freie.“
Synonyms
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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