Tones
[ˈtoːnəs]
The verdict
“Tones” is uncommon German (frequency #85,941 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,941
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ton
Corpus desk
Index DE-tones · Tones · German
Tones · rank #85,941 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,941
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Torero
Nearest frequency peer: Torero (+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 “Tones”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tire
tire
14,063 corpus weight
- tob
tob
14,062 corpus weight
- Tones
Tones
14,060 corpus weight
- Torero
Torero
14,059 corpus weight
- tost
tost
14,058 corpus weight
- tou
tou
14,057 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Tones” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tones |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈtoːnəs] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Tones” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
Tones is uncommon German at frequency #85,941 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈtoːnəs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ton".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Tones, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Tones, spelled T-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Substantivs Ton
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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