Tees
[teːs]
The verdict
“Tees” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,662) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,662
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Tee
Corpus desk
Index DE-tees · Tees · German
Tees · rank #39,662 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,662
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Teelöffel
Nearest frequency peer: Teelöffel (-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 „Tees“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- tappen
tappen
60,342 corpus weight
- Tecklenburg
Tecklenburg
60,341 corpus weight
- Teelöffel
Teelöffel
60,340 corpus weight
- Tees
Tees
60,339 corpus weight
- Teilbereich
Teilbereich
60,338 corpus weight
- teureren
teureren
60,337 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Tees“ 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 | Tees |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teːs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Tees“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tees is neighbouring look-alikes ("Ts", "tue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [teːs]. Frequency #39,662 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Tees, with forms such as "etes", "teess", and "tese". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ts", "tue", "ten", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Tees, spelled T-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Tee
- 2Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Tee
- 3Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Tee
- 4Dativ Plural des Substantivs Tee
- 5Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Tee
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- etes
- teess
- tese
- ttees
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Tees - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Tees", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).