til
[tiːl]
The verdict
“til” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,951) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,951
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - überdeckender Flechtenbewuchs auf einem Stein oder Felsen
Corpus desk
Index DE-til · til · German
til · rank #14,951 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,951
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Theaterstück
Nearest frequency peer: Theaterstück (-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 „til“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Tauber
Tauber
85,053 corpus weight
- Techno
Techno
85,052 corpus weight
- Theaterstück
Theaterstück
85,051 corpus weight
- til
til
85,050 corpus weight
- tippe
tippe
85,049 corpus weight
- totalen
totalen
85,048 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „til“ 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 | til |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tiːl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „til“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for til is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [tiːl]. Frequency #14,951 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "überdeckender Flechtenbewuchs auf einem Stein oder Felsen".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for til, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is til, spelled T-I-L.
Definition
- 1überdeckender Flechtenbewuchs auf einem Stein oder Felsen
Synonyms
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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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