tiki

verb

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The verdict

“tiki” is uncommon German (frequency #56,587 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,587
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zucken

Corpus desk

Index DE-tiki · tiki · German

tiki · rank #56,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,587
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH topfit

Nearest frequency peer: topfit (+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 „tiki“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tiki“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tiki
PropertyValue
Headwordtiki
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
Letters4
Frequency rank#56,587
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „tiki“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.tikifällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „topfit“ (#56,588), „Thiem“ (#56,585), „totschlagen“ (#56,589). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „tiki“ bei #56,587. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tiki is uncommon German at frequency #56,587 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zucken".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tiki, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is tiki, spelled T-I-K-I.

Definition

  1. 1
    zucken

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tiki appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Unu el ni okule tikis kaj tro okulfrape rigardis al iu.“

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tiki"?
"tiki" is spelled T-I-K-I.
What does "tiki" mean?
As a verb, "tiki" means: zucken
What language does "tiki" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tiki", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sono#56,536Yogi#56,696Rist#56,476rena#56,469

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list