tea
[tiː]
The verdict
“tea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,413) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,413
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Tee
Corpus desk
Index DE-tea · tea · German
tea · rank #19,413 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,413
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Taschenlampe
Nearest frequency peer: Taschenlampe (-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 „tea“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Synode
Synode
80,591 corpus weight
- Südtiroler
Südtiroler
80,590 corpus weight
- Taschenlampe
Taschenlampe
80,589 corpus weight
- tea
tea
80,588 corpus weight
- Terroransch…
Terroranschlag
80,587 corpus weight
- teures
teures
80,586 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „tea“ 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 | tea |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tiː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „tea“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tea is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [tiː]. Frequency #19,413 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tea, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is tea, spelled T-E-A.
Definition
- 1der Tee
- 2Abendessen
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.
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