Tm
The verdict
“Tm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,093) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,093
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Thulium
Corpus desk
Index DE-tm · Tm · German
Tm · rank #18,093 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,093
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tierische
Nearest frequency peer: tierische (-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 „Tm“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- tieferen
tieferen
81,911 corpus weight
- tierisch
tierisch
81,910 corpus weight
- tierische
tierische
81,909 corpus weight
- Tm
Tm
81,908 corpus weight
- Todestag
Todestag
81,907 corpus weight
- Toskana
Toskana
81,906 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Tm“ 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 | Tm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #18,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Tm“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tm is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #18,093 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "Thulium".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tm, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Tm, spelled T-M.
Definition
- 1Thulium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tm → Tm³⁺ + 3 e⁻
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.