thee

[ðiː]

/[ðiː]/ pron

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The verdict

“thee” is uncommon German (frequency #68,748 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,748
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dir, dich (Objektform 2. Person Singular)

Corpus desk

Index DE-thee · thee · German

thee · rank #68,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,748
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH Testung

Nearest frequency peer: Testung (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „thee“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „thee“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for thee
PropertyValue
Headwordthee
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPronoun
IPA[ðiː]
Letters4
Frequency rank#68,748
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „thee“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.theefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Testung“ (#68,747), „Themenfelder“ (#68,750), „Teigwaren“ (#68,745). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „thee“ bei #68,748. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

thee is uncommon German at frequency #68,748 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed [ðiː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dir, dich (Objektform 2. Person Singular)".

No misspelling variants are generated for thee in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is thee, spelled T-H-E-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    dir, dich (Objektform 2. Person Singular)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how thee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Said Walter: “Tell me this; why didst thou slay the man? did he any scathe to thee?”
  2. "In Latter-day Saint prayer tradition, the terms "thee" and "thou" are always and exclusively used to address God, as a mark of respect."

Synonyms

you

Antonyms

thou

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "thee"?
"thee" is spelled T-H-E-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ðiː].
What does "thee" mean?
As a pronoun, "thee" means: dir, dich (Objektform 2. Person Singular)
How do you pronounce "thee"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "thee" is [ðiː]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "thee" come from?
"thee" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "thee", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vent#68,816Vlog#68,855Röhl#68,631woke#68,900

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list