shi
[ʃíː]
The verdict
“shi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,128) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,128
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular; er
Corpus desk
Index DE-shi · shi · German
shi · rank #42,128 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,128
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Seychellen
Nearest frequency peer: Seychellen (-2 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 „shi“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- selbstlos
selbstlos
57,877 corpus weight
- sexistische
sexistische
57,876 corpus weight
- Seychellen
Seychellen
57,875 corpus weight
- shi
shi
57,873 corpus weight
- silk
silk
57,871 corpus weight
- Sinfonieorc…
Sinfonieorchester
57,870 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „shi“ 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 | shi |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ʃíː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „shi“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for shi is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "SV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ʃíː]. Frequency #42,128 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular; er".
Zero misspellings are on record for shi in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SV", "SS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is shi, spelled S-H-I.
Definition
- 1Personalpronomen 3. Person Maskulinum Singular; er
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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