threat

/[θɹɛt]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#52,488

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

threat is aGermannoun. It means: die Bedrohung, die Gefahr Pronounced [θɹɛt].

Key facts for threat
PropertyValue
Headwordthreat
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[θɹɛt]
Letters6
Frequency rank#52,488
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of threat in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for threat is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [θɹɛt]. Corpus data places it at rank #52,488 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Bedrohung, die Gefahr".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for threat in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 threat, spelled T-H-R-E-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    die Bedrohung, die Gefahr

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #52,488 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "threat"?
"threat" is spelled T-H-R-E-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is [θɹɛt].
What does "threat" mean?
As a noun, "threat" means: die Bedrohung, die Gefahr
How do you pronounce "threat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "threat" is [θɹɛt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "threat" come from?
"threat" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.