pain
[peɪn]
The verdict
“pain” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #23,652. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,652
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schmerz
Corpus desk
Index DE-pain · pain · German
pain · rank #23,652 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,652
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Ortszeit
Nearest frequency peer: Ortszeit (-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 “pain”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Ohrfeige
Ohrfeige
76,352 corpus weight
- Ortsvorsteh…
Ortsvorsteher
76,351 corpus weight
- Ortszeit
Ortszeit
76,350 corpus weight
- pain
pain
76,349 corpus weight
- pal
pal
76,348 corpus weight
- Parlamente
Parlamente
76,347 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pain” 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 | pain |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peɪn] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “pain” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pain (IPA [peɪn]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,652 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pain, with forms such as "apin", "painn", and "pani". 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, "pi", "pen", "par", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is pain, spelled P-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Schmerz
- 2Leid, Kummer, seelischer Schmerz
- 3lästige Person
- 4(veraltet) Strafe
- 5Anstrengung, Mühe
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"So why is it that when it comes to pain, particularly chronic pain, we seem to be barely out of the Middle Ages?"
"Chronic pain is a critical issue in health care today. Beyond the untold personal suffering, the cost in lost workdays and health care dollars is enormous."
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apin
- painn
- pani
- pian
- ppain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pain - 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 "pain", 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 "pain". Here's where to go from here.
- "pain" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "pi". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #23,652 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.