tum
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The verdict
“tum” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,375) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,375
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dann, alsdann
Corpus desk
Index DE-tum · tum · German
tum · rank #29,375 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,375
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Trunkenheit
Nearest frequency peer: Trunkenheit (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „tum“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- tropft
tropft
70,629 corpus weight
- trophy
trophy
70,628 corpus weight
- Trunkenheit
Trunkenheit
70,627 corpus weight
- tum
tum
70,626 corpus weight
- Töpfer
Töpfer
70,624 corpus weight
- unaufhaltsam
unaufhaltsam
70,623 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „tum“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „tum“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tum is neighbouring look-alikes ("TV", "Tz", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced […]. Frequency #29,375 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
tum doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TV", "Tz", "ty", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is tum, spelled T-U-M.
Definition
- 1dann, alsdann
- 2dann, hierauf, darauf, sodann, anschließend
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Si malas [oder konjiziert: malos] imitabo, tum tu pretium pro noxa dabis.“ (Liv. Andr. trag. 1)
„tumque remos iussit religare struppis“ (Andr. poet. 16)
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).