tigris
[ˈtiɡriʃ]
The verdict
“tigris” is uncommon German (frequency #63,842 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,842
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tiger
Corpus desk
Index DE-tigris · tigris · German
tigris · rank #63,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,842
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tieferes
Nearest frequency peer: tieferes (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „tigris“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- they're
they're
36,163 corpus weight
- tieferes
tieferes
36,160 corpus weight
- tigris
tigris
36,159 corpus weight
- Titelkampf
Titelkampf
36,158 corpus weight
- Todesanzeige
Todesanzeige
36,157 corpus weight
- Todsünde
Todsünde
36,156 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tigris“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tigris |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtiɡriʃ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „tigris“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
tigris is uncommon German at frequency #63,842 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtiɡriʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tiger".
tigris has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is tigris, spelled T-I-G-R-I-S.
Definition
- 1Tiger
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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