tis
[cɪs]
The verdict
“tis” is uncommon German (frequency #60,151 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,151
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nadelbaum mit dunklen Nadeln; Eibe
Corpus desk
Index DE-tis · tis · German
tis · rank #60,151 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,151
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 35,386
- PHOTO-FINISH Tierzucht
Nearest frequency peer: Tierzucht (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tis”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Thumbnails
Thumbnails
39,853 corpus weight
- tiefstes
tiefstes
39,852 corpus weight
- Tierzucht
Tierzucht
39,851 corpus weight
- tis
tis
39,850 corpus weight
- Totalverlust
Totalverlust
39,849 corpus weight
- Traditionsv…
Traditionsverein
39,848 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tis” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [cɪs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #60,151 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tis” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tis is uncommon German at frequency #60,151 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [cɪs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nadelbaum mit dunklen Nadeln; Eibe".
No misspelling variants are generated for tis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is tis, spelled T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Nadelbaum mit dunklen Nadeln; Eibe
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.