zie
[ˈt͡siːe]
The verdict
“zie” is uncommon German (frequency #87,307 among 1,996 “Z” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,307
- frequency rank, German
- 1,996
- “Z” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs zia
Corpus desk
Index DE-zie · zie · German
zie · rank #87,307 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,307
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,996
- PHOTO-FINISH zertrümmerte
Nearest frequency peer: zertrümmerte (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „zie“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zentralverw…
Zentralverwaltung
12,697 corpus weight
- zersplitter…
zersplitterten
12,696 corpus weight
- zertrümmerte
zertrümmerte
12,695 corpus weight
- zie
zie
12,694 corpus weight
- Ziegelstein…
Ziegelsteinen
12,693 corpus weight
- Ziegenmilch
Ziegenmilch
12,692 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „zie“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | zie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt͡siːe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #87,307 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „zie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
zie is uncommon German at frequency #87,307 among 1,996 “Z” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈt͡siːe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs zia".
zie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is zie, spelled Z-I-E.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs zia
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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