they're
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The verdict
“they're” is uncommon German (frequency #63,838 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,838
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - „they are:“ sie sind
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | they're |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,838 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “they're” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
they're is uncommon German at frequency #63,838 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anabbreviation, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "„they are:“ sie sind".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for they're, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is they're, spelled T-H-E-Y-'-R-E.
Definition
- 1„they are:“ sie sind
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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Using “they're”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-H-E-Y-'-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.