pape
[pap]
The verdict
“pape” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,202) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,202
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Papst
Corpus desk
Index DE-pape · pape · German
pape · rank #32,202 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,202
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Padua
Nearest frequency peer: Padua (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „pape“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Osterferien
Osterferien
67,802 corpus weight
- Ozeane
Ozeane
67,801 corpus weight
- Padua
Padua
67,800 corpus weight
- pape
pape
67,799 corpus weight
- pepper
pepper
67,798 corpus weight
- Pfälzische
Pfälzische
67,796 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „pape“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | pape |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pap] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „pape“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pape is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pop", "par", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [pap]. Frequency #32,202 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Papst".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for pape, with forms such as "appe", "paep", and "ppae". 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, "Pop", "par", "pay", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is pape, spelled P-A-P-E.
Definition
- 1Papst
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appe
- paep
- ppae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pape - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "pape", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).