yet
[jɛt]
The verdict
“yet” sits in 10 confusable pairs (corpus #35,565) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,565
- frequency rank, German
- 67
- “Y” headwords
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - noch
Corpus desk
Index DE-yet · yet · German
yet · rank #35,565 · 0 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,565
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 67
- PHOTO-FINISH wälzen
Nearest frequency peer: wälzen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yet”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wochenendes
Wochenendes
64,439 corpus weight
- Wunschdenken
Wunschdenken
64,438 corpus weight
- wälzen
wälzen
64,437 corpus weight
- yet
yet
64,436 corpus weight
- Zahlungsver…
Zahlungsverkehr
64,435 corpus weight
- Zeitlupe
Zeitlupe
64,434 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yet” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | yet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [jɛt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yet” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yet is neighbouring look-alikes ("Yi", "you", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [jɛt]. Frequency #35,565 among 67 “Y” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for yet in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Yi", "you", "Yin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is yet, spelled Y-E-T.
Definition
- 1noch
- 2bisher
- 3zukünftig, noch
- 4jedoch, allerdings
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "yet" maps to 10 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Yi". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #35,565 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.