THC
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The verdict
“THC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,974) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,974
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tetrahydrocannabinol
Corpus desk
Index DE-thc · THC · German
THC · rank #27,974 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,974
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH TeX
Nearest frequency peer: TeX (-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 „THC“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- tauglich
tauglich
72,031 corpus weight
- tausche
tausche
72,030 corpus weight
- Teilstück
Teilstück
72,029 corpus weight
- TeX
TeX
72,028 corpus weight
- THC
THC
72,027 corpus weight
- thematische
thematische
72,025 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „THC“ 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 | THC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „THC“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for THC is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #27,974 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for THC in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is THC, spelled T-H-C.
Definition
- 1Tetrahydrocannabinol
- 2Tennis- und Hockeyclub
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how THC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hanf enthält THC.
Der THC Beispielhausen steht kurz vor dem Ligaabstieg.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "THC", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).