pace
[ˈpaːt͡ʃe]
The verdict
“pace” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #33,216. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,216
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Frieden, der Friede
Corpus desk
Index DE-pace · pace · German
pace · rank #33,216 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,216
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Ostasien
Nearest frequency peer: Ostasien (-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 “pace”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Onkologie
Onkologie
66,789 corpus weight
- Ostasien
Ostasien
66,786 corpus weight
- pace
pace
66,785 corpus weight
- pair
pair
66,784 corpus weight
- pak
pak
66,783 corpus weight
- Palmöl
Palmöl
66,782 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pace” 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 | pace |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpaːt͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “pace” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pace (IPA [ˈpaːt͡ʃe]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,216 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pace, with forms such as "apce", "pacce", and "paec". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PC", "par", "pay", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is pace, spelled P-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1der Frieden, der Friede
- 2die Ruhe
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apce
- pacce
- paec
- pcae
- ppace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pace - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pace", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "pace". Here's where to go from here.
- "pace" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "PC". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #33,216 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.