Tor
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,373
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Tor is aGermannoun. It means: großer Zugang, großer Durchgang; bewegliches Bauteil, mit dem dieser Zugang geöffnet und geschlossen werden kann; Bauwerk, das einen Durchgang umschließt, meist als Bestandteil eines Eigennamens Pronounced [toːɐ̯]. It ranks #1,373 in German word frequency. Often confused with TV and tu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tor |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [toːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Tor is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [toːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,373 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Tor in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "tu", "Ts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Tor, spelled T-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1großer Zugang, großer Durchgang; bewegliches Bauteil, mit dem dieser Zugang geöffnet und geschlossen werden kann; Bauwerk, das einen Durchgang umschließt, meist als Bestandteil eines Eigennamens
- 2Trefferzone bei vielen Ballspielarten
- 3durch den Schiedsrichter bestätigte Tatsache, dass ein Spieler das Spielgerät (Ball, Scheibe, Ring) regelkonform über die Torlinie des unter [2] genannten Tores untergebracht hat
- 4ein durch eingesteckte Stangen markierten Durchgang
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Frequency rank: #1,373 in German
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