tissue
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The verdict
“tissue” is uncommon German (frequency #83,383 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,383
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gewebe
Corpus desk
Index DE-tissue · tissue · German
tissue · rank #83,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,383
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 35,386
- PHOTO-FINISH ties
Nearest frequency peer: ties (-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 “tissue”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Thronfolgers
Thronfolgers
16,621 corpus weight
- thus
thus
16,620 corpus weight
- ties
ties
16,619 corpus weight
- tissue
tissue
16,618 corpus weight
- Topfen
Topfen
16,617 corpus weight
- totalitärer
totalitärer
16,616 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tissue” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tissue |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tissue” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tissue is uncommon German at frequency #83,383 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for tissue in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is tissue, spelled T-I-S-S-U-E.
Definition
- 1Gewebe
- 2Stoff
- 3Taschentuch, Papiertaschentuch
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tissue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 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.