Packerl
[ˈpakɐl]
The verdict
“Packerl” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - verpackte kleine Menge einer Ware
Corpus desk
Index DE-packerl · Packerl · German
Packerl · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Packerl |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpakɐl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Packerl“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Packerl is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpakɐl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Packerl, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Packerl, spelled P-A-C-K-E-R-L.
Definition
- 1verpackte kleine Menge einer Ware
- 2Postpaket
- 3Geschenkpaket
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Packerl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Greifen Sie eher zur Flasche als zum Packerl?“
„Und das, was ein Packerl Orangensaft dann am Ende an der europäischen Supermarktkassa kostet, kommt aufgrund der zynischen Regeln des Marktes auch nur zu einem kleinen Bruchteil bei jenen an, die am härtesten arbeiten.“
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.