pairs
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The verdict
“pairs” is uncommon German (frequency #88,102 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,102
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pair
Corpus desk
Index DE-pairs · pairs · German
pairs · rank #88,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,102
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Panzerwagen
Nearest frequency peer: Panzerwagen (+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 „pairs“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Osterei
Osterei
11,905 corpus weight
- Oststadt
Oststadt
11,904 corpus weight
- pairs
pairs
11,899 corpus weight
- Panzerwagen
Panzerwagen
11,898 corpus weight
- Parteitages
Parteitages
11,895 corpus weight
- Pasch
Pasch
11,894 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pairs“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pairs |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pairs“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pairs is uncommon German at frequency #88,102 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pair".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pairs, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is pairs, spelled P-A-I-R-S.
Definition
- 13. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pair
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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