Tic
[tɪk]
The verdict
“Tic” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,446) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,446
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unkontrollierte Muskelkontraktion
Corpus desk
Index DE-tic · Tic · German
Tic · rank #38,446 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,446
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Thorax
Nearest frequency peer: Thorax (-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 „Tic“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Terrorgruppe
Terrorgruppe
61,558 corpus weight
- Thorax
Thorax
61,556 corpus weight
- Tic
Tic
61,555 corpus weight
- tobte
tobte
61,554 corpus weight
- tollsten
tollsten
61,553 corpus weight
- Tonart
Tonart
61,552 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Tic“ 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 | Tic |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tɪk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Tic“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tic is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [tɪk]. Frequency #38,446 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "unkontrollierte Muskelkontraktion".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Tic, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Tic, spelled T-I-C.
Definition
- 1unkontrollierte Muskelkontraktion
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er leidet sehr unter seinen nervösen Tics.
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).