Paar
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#258
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Paar is aGermannoun. It means: zwei durch eine (wie auch immer geartete) Beziehung miteinander verbundene Menschen (Lebewesen); zwei Menschen in einer engen, persönlichen (intimen) Verbindung Pronounced [paːɐ̯]. It ranks #258 in German word frequency. Often confused with Pr and per.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paːɐ̯] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Paar is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paːɐ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #258 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for Paar, with forms such as "apar", "paarr", and "para". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pr", "per", "PUR", 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 Paar, spelled P-A-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1zwei durch eine (wie auch immer geartete) Beziehung miteinander verbundene Menschen (Lebewesen); zwei Menschen in einer engen, persönlichen (intimen) Verbindung
- 2Zahlklassifikator für zwei gleiche, zusammengeführte, zusammengefügte, zusammengehörige, zusammengestellte, gruppierte Dinge
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apar,paarr,para,ppaar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Paar
Misspelling Variants of "Paar"
Frequency rank: #258 in German
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Nearby German words
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