theft
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The verdict
“theft” is uncommon German (frequency #55,763 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,763
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diebstahl
Corpus desk
Index DE-theft · theft · German
theft · rank #55,763 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,763
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH therapiert
Nearest frequency peer: therapiert (+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 „theft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- tak
tak
44,241 corpus weight
- theft
theft
44,238 corpus weight
- therapiert
therapiert
44,237 corpus weight
- thu
thu
44,236 corpus weight
- tiefgründige
tiefgründige
44,235 corpus weight
- Tierfutter
Tierfutter
44,234 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „theft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | theft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „theft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
theft is uncommon German at frequency #55,763 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Diebstahl".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for theft, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is theft, spelled T-H-E-F-T.
Definition
- 1Diebstahl
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how theft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The theft of my watch happened last year.
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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