res
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The verdict
“res” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,909) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,909
- frequency rank, German
- 2,984
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nichts (wörtlich: nicht etwas)
Corpus desk
Index DE-res · res · German
res · rank #14,909 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,909
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,984
- PHOTO-FINISH Remis
Nearest frequency peer: Remis (-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 „res“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- regnen
regnen
85,095 corpus weight
- reichsten
reichsten
85,094 corpus weight
- Remis
Remis
85,093 corpus weight
- res
res
85,092 corpus weight
- Reue
Reue
85,091 corpus weight
- Revolutionä…
Revolutionären
85,090 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „res“ 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 | res |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „res“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for res is neighbouring look-alikes ("Rn", "Rs", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced […]. Frequency #14,909 among 2,984 “R” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for res in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Rn", "Rs", "RV", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is res, spelled R-E-S.
Definition
- 1nichts (wörtlich: nicht etwas)
- 2etwas, irgendetwas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how res appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No m'ha dit res.
Si saps res de nou, escriu-m'ho.
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).