Trick
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,434
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Trick is aGermannoun. It means: ein Kunststück, Streich, ein Kunstgriff, dessen Funktionsweise für Nichteingeweihte nicht offensichtlich ist; eine Überraschung, Staunen oder Entsetzen hervorrufende, unerwartete, schwer vorhersagb... Pronounced [tʁɪk]. It ranks #5,434 in German word frequency. Often confused with Trio and Trip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trick |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁɪk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Trick is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁɪk]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,434 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Trick, with forms such as "rtick", "tirck", and "trcik". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Trio", "Trip", "tritt", 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 Trick, spelled T-R-I-C-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1ein Kunststück, Streich, ein Kunstgriff, dessen Funktionsweise für Nichteingeweihte nicht offensichtlich ist; eine Überraschung, Staunen oder Entsetzen hervorrufende, unerwartete, schwer vorhersagbare oder berechenbare Handlung
- 2ein Kunstgriff am Rande von Sitte, Rechtschaffenheit und Legalität
- 3ein auffälliger Wurf eines Jongleurs
- 4ein gemachter Stich in Kartenspielen wie Whist und Bridge
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtick,tirck,trcik,tricck,trickk,trikc,trrick,ttrick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Trick
Misspelling Variants of "Trick"
Frequency rank: #5,434 in German
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