Tier
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,091
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Tier is aGermannoun. It means: Lebewesen, das seine Energie nicht durch Photosynthese gewinnt und Sauerstoff zur Atmung benötigt, aber kein Pilz ist Pronounced [tiːɐ̯]. It ranks #2,091 in German word frequency. Often confused with Tür and Tor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tiːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tier is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tiːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,091 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Tier, with forms such as "iter", "teir", and "tierr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tür", "Tor", "tue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Tier, spelled T-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lebewesen, das seine Energie nicht durch Photosynthese gewinnt und Sauerstoff zur Atmung benötigt, aber kein Pilz ist
- 2atmendes Lebewesen entsprechend [1] mit Ausnahme des Menschen
- 3weiblicher Hirsch; Hirschkuh
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iter,teir,tierr,tire,ttier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Tier
Misspelling Variants of "Tier"
Frequency rank: #2,091 in German
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Nearby German words
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