Tweet

/[tviːt]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,538

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

Tweet is aGermannoun. It means: Nachricht beim sozialen Netzwerk „X“ (ehemals Twitter) Pronounced [tviːt]. It ranks #7,538 in German word frequency. Often confused with twist and tweets.

Key facts for Tweet
PropertyValue
HeadwordTweet
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[tviːt]
Letters5
Frequency rank#7,538
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Tweet in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Tweet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [tviːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,538 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nachricht beim sozialen Netzwerk „X“ (ehemals Twitter)".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Tweet, with forms such as "tewet", "ttweet", and "tweett". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "twist", "tweets", "twenty", 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 Tweet, spelled T-W-E-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nachricht beim sozialen Netzwerk „X“ (ehemals Twitter)

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: tewet,ttweet,tweett,twet,twete,twweet,wteet

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Tweet

Misspelling Variants of "Tweet"

tewet5ttweet6tweett6twet4twete5twweet6wteet5
Misspelling Variants of "Tweet"

Frequency rank: #7,538 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Tweet"?
"Tweet" is spelled T-W-E-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is [tviːt].
What does "Tweet" mean?
As a noun, "Tweet" means: Nachricht beim sozialen Netzwerk „X“ (ehemals Twitter)
What words are commonly confused with "Tweet"?
"Tweet" is commonly confused with "twist", "tweets", "twenty". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Tweet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Tweet" is [tviːt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Tweet" come from?
"Tweet" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.