Top
[tɔp]
The verdict
“Top” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,000) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,000
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - leichtes, meistens ärmelloses, körpernah geschnittenes Oberteil
Corpus desk
Index DE-top · Top · German
Top · rank #1,000 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #1,000
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Schuld
Nearest frequency peer: Schuld (-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 “Top”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Linie
Linie
99,005 corpus weight
- Natur
Natur
99,003 corpus weight
- Schuld
Schuld
99,002 corpus weight
- Top
Top
99,001 corpus weight
- Wahrheit
Wahrheit
99,000 corpus weight
- Worte
Worte
98,999 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Top” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Top |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tɔp] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Top” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Top is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "tu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [tɔp]. Frequency #1,000 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "leichtes, meistens ärmelloses, körpernah geschnittenes Oberteil".
Top doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "tu", "Ts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Top, spelled T-O-P.
Definition
- 1leichtes, meistens ärmelloses, körpernah geschnittenes Oberteil
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Top appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Kombiniere den Rock mit einem passenden Top und es sieht aus, als trägst du einen Jumpsuit!“
„Das coole dabei ist, dass du dieses Top auch wunderbar nach der Hochzeit noch weiter tragen kannst, z.B. zu einer Highwaist Jeans!“
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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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- "Top" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "TV". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #1,000 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
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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.