Thema
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#388
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
Thema is aGermannoun. It means: gedanklicher Mittelpunkt Pronounced [ˈteːma]. It ranks #388 in German word frequency. Often confused with Theo and they.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Thema |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈteːma] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Thema is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈteːma]. Corpus data places it at rank #388 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Thema, with forms such as "htema", "tehma", and "theam". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Theo", "they", "then", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Thema, spelled T-H-E-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1gedanklicher Mittelpunkt
- 2gemeinsamer Fokus einer Gesprächsgruppe
- 3Hauptteil, dessen Ideen oder Harmoniefolgen in Improvisationen oder weiteren Teilen ausgearbeitet, paraphrasiert oder imitiert werden
- 4Gegenstand oder Grundgedanke zum Beispiel einer schriftlichen Arbeit oder eines literarischen Werkes
- 5Ausgangsinformation eines Satzes (während das Rhema die auf diese Information bezogenen neuen Ausführungen bezeichnet); im Deutschen ist in vielen Fällen das Subjekt das Thema des Satzes
- 6Verwaltungsdistrikt im Byzantinischen Reich
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: htema,tehma,theam,themma,thhema,thmea,tthema
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Thema"
Frequency rank: #388 in German
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