thy
[ðaɪ]
The verdict
“thy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,049) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,049
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dein
Corpus desk
Index DE-thy · thy · German
thy · rank #47,049 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,049
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH teatro
Nearest frequency peer: teatro (-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 „thy“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- taktischer
taktischer
52,956 corpus weight
- tall
tall
52,955 corpus weight
- teatro
teatro
52,953 corpus weight
- thy
thy
52,952 corpus weight
- Torerfolg
Torerfolg
52,950 corpus weight
- torre
torre
52,949 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „thy“ 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 | thy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ðaɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „thy“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for thy is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ðaɪ]. Frequency #47,049 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "dein".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for thy, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is thy, spelled T-H-Y.
Definition
- 1dein
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thy kingdom come.
Honour thy father and thy mother.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).