ti
[ˈti]
The verdict
“ti” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,603) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,603
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - du
Corpus desk
Index DE-ti · ti · German
ti · rank #12,603 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,603
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Taube
Nearest frequency peer: Taube (-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 „ti“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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87,401 corpus weight
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tanken
87,400 corpus weight
- Taube
Taube
87,399 corpus weight
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ti
87,398 corpus weight
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87,397 corpus weight
- tip
tip
87,396 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „ti“ 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 | ti |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | [ˈti] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #12,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „ti“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ti is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced [ˈti]. Frequency #12,603 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "du".
ti has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is ti, spelled T-I.
Definition
- 1du
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.