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t

German, noun

t is spelled T (one letter) and appears 155 times per million words in written German, the 561st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). T is a German neuter noun meaning “alternative letter-case form of T” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, T is a different word: “T”.

What does t mean in English?

letter

  1. 1

    neuterThe twentieth letter of the German alphabet, called te and written in the Latin script.

noun

  1. 1

    neuteralternative letter-case form of T

suffix

as -t
  1. 1

    Verb suffix for the third-person singular of the present tense.

suffix

as -t
  1. 1

    Verb suffix for the second-person plural of the present and past tenses.

suffix

as -t
  1. 1

    Verb suffix for the past participle of weak verbs, together with the prefix ge- if the first syllable of the verb stem is stressed. See ge- -t for more.

letter

as T
  1. 1

    neuterThe twentieth letter of the German alphabet, written in the Latin script.

noun

as T
  1. 1

    neuterT

noun

as T
  1. 1

    abbreviation of tausend (“K; thousand”)

  2. 2

    abbreviation of Turm (“rook”)

  3. 3

    Austria(on license plates of government cars) abbreviation of Tirol

interfix

as -t-
  1. 1

    Used to separate two adjacent sonorants, mostly when -en is followed by -lich.

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

abbreviation: 1. Abkürzung für die Maßeinheit Tonne 2. Symbol für die Zeit

letter: 1. Kleinschreibungsform des Buchstaben T des lateinischen Alphabets

letter: 1. 20. Buchstabe des lateinischen Alphabets

abbreviation: 1. Notation für Turm 2. österreichisches Kfz-Kennzeichen für 3. alle Kfz in Tirol ab 1947 bis zum vollständigen Ersatz der schwarzen Nummerntafeln mit weißer Schrift 4. dienstliche Kfz des Präsidenten des Landtages sowie für die Mitglieder der Landesregierung in Tirol ab 1988

abbreviation: 1. tausend Euro

abbreviation: 1. Paʻanga (Währung in Tonga)

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of t

  • T uppercase
  • ts plural
  • t lowercase
  • Ts plural

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is t in German?

t appears 155 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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