Timm
[tɪm]
The verdict
“Timm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,088) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,088
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - deutscher Familienname
Corpus desk
Index DE-timm · Timm · German
Timm · rank #27,088 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,088
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH thanks
Nearest frequency peer: thanks (-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 „Timm“
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- Timm
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72,913 corpus weight
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Timm“ 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 | Timm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [tɪm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Timm“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Timm is neighbouring look-alikes ("Tm", "tom", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [tɪm]. Frequency #27,088 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "deutscher Familienname".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Timm, with forms such as "itmm", "tim", and "tmim". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tm", "tom", "tip", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Timm, spelled T-I-M-M.
Definition
- 1deutscher Familienname
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Timm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Frau Timm geht zur Abendschule.
Vom Fleiß des kleinen Timm kannst du dir gut eine Scheibe abschneiden.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itmm
- tim
- tmim
- ttimm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Timm - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Timm", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).