thu
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The verdict
“thu” is uncommon German (frequency #55,765 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,765
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alternative Schreibweise des Pronomens tu
Corpus desk
Index DE-thu · thu · German
thu · rank #55,765 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,765
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH therapiert
Nearest frequency peer: therapiert (-1 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 „thu“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- theft
theft
44,238 corpus weight
- therapiert
therapiert
44,237 corpus weight
- thu
thu
44,236 corpus weight
- tiefgründige
tiefgründige
44,235 corpus weight
- Tierfutter
Tierfutter
44,234 corpus weight
- tierisches
tierisches
44,233 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „thu“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „thu“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
thu is uncommon German at frequency #55,765 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "alternative Schreibweise des Pronomens tu".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is thu, spelled T-H-U.
Definition
- 1alternative Schreibweise des Pronomens tu
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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