tribe

[traɪb]

/[traɪb]/ noun

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The verdict

“tribe” is uncommon German (frequency #89,682 among 2,684 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#89,682
frequency rank, German
2,684
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine soziale Gruppe, die aus mehreren Familien besteht; Stamm, Volksstamm

Corpus desk

Index DE-tribe · tribe · German

tribe · rank #89,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #89,682
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,684
  • PHOTO-FINISH Triaden

Nearest frequency peer: Triaden (-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 „tribe“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „tribe“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for tribe
PropertyValue
Headwordtribe
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[traɪb]
Letters5
Frequency rank#89,682
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „tribe“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).tribefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Triaden“ (#89,681), „trimm“ (#89,683), „trennende“ (#89,680). Unter 2,684 „T“-Lemmata liegt „tribe“ bei #89,682. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tribe is uncommon German at frequency #89,682 among 2,684 “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

  1. 1
    eine soziale Gruppe, die aus mehreren Familien besteht; Stamm, Volksstamm
  2. 2
    eine Gruppe von Personen, die ein gemeinsames Interesse haben
  3. 3
    eine Kategorie innerhalb der Taxotomie, die unterhalb der Subfamilie und oberhalb der Gattung liegt

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tribe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Our tribe has more than 400 tribesmen.
  2. "The remains of the sloth tribe discovered in South America, have been amply described in the works of Pander and d'Alton, Cuvier, Owen, and Lund, and the object of the present memoir is to give an account exclusively of the remains of the same family, which have been found in North America."

Synonyms

clankinfolk

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tribe"?
"tribe" is spelled T-R-I-B-E. The IPA pronunciation is [traɪb].
What does "tribe" mean?
As a noun, "tribe" means: eine soziale Gruppe, die aus mehreren Familien besteht; Stamm, Volksstamm
How do you pronounce "tribe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tribe" is [traɪb]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tribe" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tribe", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

trimm#89,683Tubus#89,686türmt#89,695taras#89,649

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list