they're
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The verdict
“they're” is uncommon German (frequency #63,838 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as an abbreviation. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,838
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - „they are:“ sie sind
Corpus desk
Index DE-they-re · they're · German
they're · rank #63,838 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,838
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH TFT
Nearest frequency peer: TFT (-2 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 „they're“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Teebeutel
Teebeutel
36,167 corpus weight
- Teppichboden
Teppichboden
36,166 corpus weight
- TFT
TFT
36,165 corpus weight
- they're
they're
36,163 corpus weight
- tieferes
tieferes
36,160 corpus weight
- tigris
tigris
36,159 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „they're“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „they're“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
they're is uncommon German at frequency #63,838 among 2,684 “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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how they're appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Have you seen his new trousers? They're ugly!
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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