Trieb
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,644
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Trieb is aGermannoun. It means: junger, neu entstandener Spross (Pflanzenteil) Pronounced [tʁiːp]. It ranks #9,644 in German word frequency. Often confused with Trio and Trip.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Trieb |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [tʁiːp] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Trieb is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tʁiːp]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,644 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Trieb, with forms such as "rtieb", "tireb", and "treib". 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", "true", 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 Trieb, spelled T-R-I-E-B, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1junger, neu entstandener Spross (Pflanzenteil)
- 2inneres Verlangen; innerer Antrieb, die eigenen Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen
- 3Kraftübertragung oder die Übertragung eines Drehmoments
- 4ein Zahnrad mit einer nur geringen Anzahl an Zähnen
- 5das Lockern des Gebäcks mit Triebmitteln
- 6Handlung, bei der Tiere dazu gebracht werden, sich in eine bestimmte Richtung zu bewegen
- 7Gesamtheit der Tiere, die dazu gebracht werden, sich in eine bestimmte Richtung zu bewegen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtieb,tireb,treib,tribe,triebb,trrieb,ttrieb
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "Trieb"
Frequency rank: #9,644 in German
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