thx
The verdict
“thx” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,809) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,809
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - danke
Corpus desk
Index DE-thx · thx · German
thx · rank #32,809 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,809
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH thorn
Nearest frequency peer: thorn (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „thx“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- temporären
temporären
67,196 corpus weight
- tendieren
tendieren
67,195 corpus weight
- thorn
thorn
67,193 corpus weight
- thx
thx
67,192 corpus weight
- tiefem
tiefem
67,190 corpus weight
- Tierquälerei
Tierquälerei
67,189 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „thx“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thx |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „thx“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for thx is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #32,809 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "danke".
No generated misspelling entries exist for thx in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is thx, spelled T-H-X.
Definition
- 1danke
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„thx for the link“ – „np“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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