te
[te]
The verdict
“te” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,979) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,979
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ihr, Sie (Höflichkeitsform)
Corpus desk
Index DE-te · te · German
te · rank #6,979 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,979
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Sturz
Nearest frequency peer: Sturz (-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 „te“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Standpunkt
Standpunkt
93,025 corpus weight
- Stellvertre…
Stellvertreter
93,024 corpus weight
- Sturz
Sturz
93,023 corpus weight
- te
te
93,022 corpus weight
- Tommy
Tommy
93,021 corpus weight
- Ulrike
Ulrike
93,020 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „te“ 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 | te |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [te] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #6,979 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „te“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for te is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [te]. Frequency #6,979 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "ihr, Sie (Höflichkeitsform)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for te, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is te, spelled T-E.
Definition
- 1ihr, Sie (Höflichkeitsform)
This word in other languages
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.