tai
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The verdict
“tai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,530) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,530
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - inklusives oder
Corpus desk
Index DE-tai · tai · German
tai · rank #22,530 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,530
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Südseite
Nearest frequency peer: Südseite (-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 „tai“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- sympathisch…
sympathischen
77,474 corpus weight
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säubern
77,473 corpus weight
- Südseite
Südseite
77,472 corpus weight
- tai
tai
77,471 corpus weight
- Tansania
Tansania
77,470 corpus weight
- tausendmal
tausendmal
77,469 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „tai“ 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 | tai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „tai“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tai is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced […]. Frequency #22,530 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "inklusives oder".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tai, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is tai, spelled T-A-I.
Definition
- 1inklusives oder
Antonyms
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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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