thứ nhất
[tʰɨ˧˦ ɲət̚˧˦]
The verdict
“thứ nhất” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — an vorderster Stelle sich befindend, dem zweiten vorangehend; erste
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thứ nhất |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [tʰɨ˧˦ ɲət̚˧˦] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thứ nhất” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for thứ nhất is 8 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʰɨ˧˦ ɲət̚˧˦]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "an vorderster Stelle sich befindend, dem zweiten vorangehend; erste".
No misspelling variants are generated for thứ nhất in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. 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 thứ nhất, spelled T-H-Ứ- -N-H-Ấ-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1an vorderster Stelle sich befindend, dem zweiten vorangehend; erste
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “thứ nhất”
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- The one correct German spelling is T-H-Ứ- -N-H-Ấ-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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