tja
[tja]
The verdict
“tja” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #2,365 in German word frequency and used as a particle.
- #2,365
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - drückt eine, häufig negativ gefärbte Zusammenfassung, ein Zwischenergebnis eines Gespräches, das Eintreten einer vorher gemachten Aussage aus; regt eine, häufig auch skeptisch gemeinte Gedankenpaus...
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 | tja |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Particle |
| IPA | [tja] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tja” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for tja is 3 letters long, classified as a particle, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tja]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,365 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "drückt eine, häufig negativ gefärbte Zusammenfassung, ein Zwischenergebnis eines Gespräches, das Eintreten einer vorher gemachten Aussage aus; regt eine, häufig auch skeptisch gemeinte Gedankenpaus...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tja, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 tja, spelled T-J-A.
Definition
- 1drückt eine, häufig negativ gefärbte Zusammenfassung, ein Zwischenergebnis eines Gespräches, das Eintreten einer vorher gemachten Aussage aus; regt eine, häufig auch skeptisch gemeinte Gedankenpause an
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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Using “tja”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [tja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “TO” - see the side-by-side comparison. tja vs TO
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.