TV
[teːˈfaʊ̯]
The verdict
“TV” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #768) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #768
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gerät zum Empfang von Signalen und zu deren akustischen und visuellen Wiedergabe
Corpus desk
Index DE-tv · TV · German
TV · rank #768 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #768
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH Saison
Nearest frequency peer: Saison (-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 „TV“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- laufen
laufen
99,236 corpus weight
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Medien
99,235 corpus weight
- Saison
Saison
99,234 corpus weight
- TV
TV
99,233 corpus weight
- verschiedene
verschiedene
99,232 corpus weight
- weiterhin
weiterhin
99,231 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „TV“ 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 | TV |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [teːˈfaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #768 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „TV“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for TV is neighbouring look-alikes ("Tz", "ty", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [teːˈfaʊ̯]. Frequency #768 among 2,684 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for TV in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tz", "ty", "Typ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is TV, spelled T-V.
Definition
- 1Gerät zum Empfang von Signalen und zu deren akustischen und visuellen Wiedergabe
- 2das analoge und digitale Senden, Empfangen und die Technik der Bild- und Tonübertragung
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how TV appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
TV anstelle von Fernsehen oder anstelle von Fernsehapparat zu sagen, greift immer mehr um sich.
„Bei der EM werden die Auszeiten für das TV gefilmt, dabei sind auch taktische Ansagen zu hören.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.