treib
[tʁaɪ̯p]
The verdict
“treib” is uncommon German (frequency #57,478 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,478
- 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 treiben
Corpus desk
Index DE-treib · treib · German
treib · rank #57,478 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,478
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Treibhausgas
Nearest frequency peer: Treibhausgas (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „treib“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- treasure
treasure
42,527 corpus weight
- treffenden
treffenden
42,525 corpus weight
- treib
treib
42,523 corpus weight
- Treibhausgas
Treibhausgas
42,522 corpus weight
- triviale
triviale
42,520 corpus weight
- Trockenzeit
Trockenzeit
42,519 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „treib“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | treib |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [tʁaɪ̯p] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,478 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „treib“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
treib is uncommon German at frequency #57,478 among 2,684 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [tʁaɪ̯p]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs treiben".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for treib, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is treib, spelled T-R-E-I-B.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs treiben
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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