ten
[tɛn]
The verdict
“ten” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,729) as a numeral. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,729
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zehn
Corpus desk
Index DE-ten · ten · German
ten · rank #6,729 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,729
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Tiger
Nearest frequency peer: Tiger (+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 „ten“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Stich
Stich
93,275 corpus weight
- Sven
Sven
93,274 corpus weight
- ten
ten
93,272 corpus weight
- Tiger
Tiger
93,271 corpus weight
- traurige
traurige
93,270 corpus weight
- trinke
trinke
93,269 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ten“ 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 | ten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Numeral |
| IPA | [tɛn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ten“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ten is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anumeral pronounced [tɛn]. Frequency #6,729 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "zehn".
Zero misspellings are on record for ten in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 ten, spelled T-E-N.
Definition
- 1zehn
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ten appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can count till ten, Mummy. First comes one, second comes two, third comes three, fourth comes four, fifth comes five, sixth comes six, seventh comes seven, eighth comes eight, ninth comes nine and tenth comes ten.
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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