ze
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,459
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ze is aGermanpron. It means: unbetonte Form des Personalpronomens zij (Subjektform der dritten Person Singular Femininum): sie Pronounced [zə]. Often confused with zu and ZK.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ze |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Pron |
| IPA | [zə] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #19,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for ze is 2 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [zə]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,459 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ze in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "zu", "ZK", "Zi", 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 ze, spelled Z-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1unbetonte Form des Personalpronomens zij (Subjektform der dritten Person Singular Femininum): sie
- 2unbetonte Form des Personalpronomens haar (Objektform der dritten Person Singular Femininum): ihr, sie
- 3unbetonte Form des Personalpronomens zij (Subjektform der dritten Person Plural): sie
- 4unbetonte Form der Personalpronomen hen und hun (Objektform der dritten Person Plural): ihnen, sie
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #19,459 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter Z in our German index: