tribe
[traɪb]
The verdict
“tribe” is uncommon German (frequency #89,682 among 35,386 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,682
- frequency rank, German
- 35,386
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine soziale Gruppe, die aus mehreren Familien besteht; Stamm, Volksstamm
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tribe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [traɪb] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tribe” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tribe is uncommon German at frequency #89,682 among 35,386 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [traɪb]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
tribe has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is tribe, spelled T-R-I-B-E.
Definition
- 1eine soziale Gruppe, die aus mehreren Familien besteht; Stamm, Volksstamm
- 2eine Gruppe von Personen, die ein gemeinsames Interesse haben
- 3eine Kategorie innerhalb der Taxotomie, die unterhalb der Subfamilie und oberhalb der Gattung liegt
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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Using “tribe”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is T-R-I-B-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [traɪb] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.