Paket
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,334
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Paket is aGermannoun. It means: Verpackung eines oder mehrerer Gegenstände zum Schutz, zu Zwecken der Bündelung, der Steigerung des Überraschungseffekts, des Scherzeffektes Pronounced [paˈkeːt]. It ranks #3,334 in German word frequency. Often confused with Pakt and Pate.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paket |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈkeːt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Paket is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paˈkeːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,334 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Paket, with forms such as "apket", "paekt", and "pakett". 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, "Pakt", "Pate", "past", 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 Paket, spelled P-A-K-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Verpackung eines oder mehrerer Gegenstände zum Schutz, zu Zwecken der Bündelung, der Steigerung des Überraschungseffekts, des Scherzeffektes
- 2Postsendung oder Paketsendung mit anderen Dienstleistern
- 3verbindliche Zusammenstellung, Kombination von verschiedenen Elementen, Waren, Produkten, Dienstleistungen, Vereinbarungen, Abkommen und Ähnlichem
- 4Einheit eines Transferprotokolls
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apket,paekt,pakett,pakket,pakte,pkaet,ppaket
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Paket
Misspelling Variants of "Paket"
Frequency rank: #3,334 in German
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