tou
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The verdict
“tou” is uncommon German (frequency #85,944 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,944
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Anus
Corpus desk
Index DE-tou · tou · German
tou · rank #85,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,944
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tost
Nearest frequency peer: tost (-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 “tou”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tones
Tones
14,060 corpus weight
- Torero
Torero
14,059 corpus weight
- tost
tost
14,058 corpus weight
- tou
tou
14,057 corpus weight
- Touchscreens
Touchscreens
14,056 corpus weight
- township
township
14,055 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tou” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tou |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “tou” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
tou is uncommon German at frequency #85,944 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "der Anus".
No generated misspelling entries exist for tou in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 tou, spelled T-O-U.
Definition
- 1der Anus
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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