Tee
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,924
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Tee is aGermannoun. It means: koffeinhaltiges, aus mit heißem Wasser übergossenen Teeblättern gewonnenes Getränk Pronounced [teː]. It ranks #2,924 in German word frequency. Often confused with TO and TV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tee |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tee is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [teː]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,924 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Tee in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Tee, spelled T-E-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1koffeinhaltiges, aus mit heißem Wasser übergossenen Teeblättern gewonnenes Getränk
- 2getrocknete und fermentierte Blätter des Teestrauchs
- 3immergrüner ostasiatischer Busch mit weißen Blüten
- 4Getränkeaufguss aus getrockneten Teilen von Heilkräutern
- 5gesellige Stunde am Nachmittag
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Frequency rank: #2,924 in German
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