this
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,559
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
this is aGermanpron. It means: in der Nähe Pronounced [ðɪs]. It ranks #2,559 in German word frequency. Often confused with Ts and ti.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | this |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [ðɪs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,559 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for this is 4 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ðɪs]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,559 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for this, with forms such as "htis", "thhis", and "thiss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Ts", "ti", "TuS", 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 this, spelled T-H-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in der Nähe
- 2etwas ist gerade im Gange oder wird beginnen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: htis,thhis,thiss,thsi,tihs,tthis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for this
Misspelling Variants of "this"
Frequency rank: #2,559 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our German index: