Tiger
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,730
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Tiger is aGermannoun. It means: (in Asien beheimatetes, zu den Großkatzen zählendes) sehr kräftiges, solitär lebendes Raubtier , dessen charakteristisches Fell, je nach Unterart, blass rötlich gelb bis rotbraun (Kopf- und Rumpfun... Pronounced [ˈtiːɡɐ]. It ranks #6,730 in German word frequency. Often confused with time and tine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tiger |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtiːɡɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tiger is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈtiːɡɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,730 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Tiger, with forms such as "itger", "tgier", and "tiegr". 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, "time", "tine", "Titel", 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 Tiger, spelled T-I-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(in Asien beheimatetes, zu den Großkatzen zählendes) sehr kräftiges, solitär lebendes Raubtier , dessen charakteristisches Fell, je nach Unterart, blass rötlich gelb bis rotbraun (Kopf- und Rumpfunterseite sowie Beininnenseite jedoch weiß) gefärbt ist und schwarzbraune bis schwarze Querstreifen aufweist
- 2Katze, deren Fellmusterung an die der unter [1] beschriebenen Großkatze erinnert
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itger,tgier,tiegr,tigerr,tigger,tigre,ttiger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Tiger
Misspelling Variants of "Tiger"
Frequency rank: #6,730 in German
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