Pankreas
[ˈpankʁeas]
The verdict
“Pankreas” is uncommon German (frequency #85,672 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,672
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - exokrine, Verdauungsenzyme produzierende, dem Stoffwechsel dienende und endokrine, zur Regulation des Glukosehaushaltes Hormone ausschüttende Drüse
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pankreas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpankʁeas] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pankreas” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pankreas is uncommon German at frequency #85,672 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpankʁeas]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "exokrine, Verdauungsenzyme produzierende, dem Stoffwechsel dienende und endokrine, zur Regulation des Glukosehaushaltes Hormone ausschüttende Drüse".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pankreas, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pankreas, spelled P-A-N-K-R-E-A-S.
Definition
- 1exokrine, Verdauungsenzyme produzierende, dem Stoffwechsel dienende und endokrine, zur Regulation des Glukosehaushaltes Hormone ausschüttende Drüse
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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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Using “Pankreas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-A-N-K-R-E-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈpankʁeas] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.