tob
[toːp]
The verdict
“tob” is uncommon German (frequency #85,939 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,939
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs toben
Corpus desk
Index DE-tob · tob · German
tob · rank #85,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,939
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tire
Nearest frequency peer: tire (-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 “tob”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- théâtre
théâtre
14,066 corpus weight
- Tierversuch
Tierversuch
14,064 corpus weight
- tire
tire
14,063 corpus weight
- tob
tob
14,062 corpus weight
- Tones
Tones
14,060 corpus weight
- Torero
Torero
14,059 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tob” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tob |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [toːp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “tob” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
tob is uncommon German at frequency #85,939 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [toːp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs toben".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tob in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 tob, spelled T-O-B.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs toben
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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