tails
[teɪlz]
The verdict
“tails” is uncommon German (frequency #76,255 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,255
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs tail
Corpus desk
Index DE-tails · tails · German
tails · rank #76,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH taggen
Nearest frequency peer: taggen (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „tails“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Tabernakel
Tabernakel
23,749 corpus weight
- taggen
taggen
23,747 corpus weight
- tails
tails
23,746 corpus weight
- Tarifs
Tarifs
23,745 corpus weight
- tatkräftiger
tatkräftiger
23,744 corpus weight
- tausendjähr…
tausendjährige
23,743 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tails“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tails |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teɪlz] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tails“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tails is uncommon German at frequency #76,255 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [teɪlz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs tail".
No misspelling variants are generated for tails in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is tails, spelled T-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs tail
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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