Pappkarton
[ˈpapkaʁˌtɔŋ]
The verdict
“Pappkarton” is uncommon German (frequency #79,565 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,565
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Werkstoff aus einem festeren papierähnlichen Material (= Pappe)
Corpus desk
Index DE-pappkarton · Pappkarton · German
Pappkarton · rank #79,565 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,565
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Panzerdivision
Nearest frequency peer: Panzerdivision (-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 „Pappkarton“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- paart
paart
20,440 corpus weight
- Paketboten
Paketboten
20,439 corpus weight
- pang
pang
20,438 corpus weight
- Panzerdivis…
Panzerdivision
20,437 corpus weight
- Pappkarton
Pappkarton
20,436 corpus weight
- parking
parking
20,434 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pappkarton“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pappkarton |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpapkaʁˌtɔŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #79,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pappkarton“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pappkarton is uncommon German at frequency #79,565 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpapkaʁˌtɔŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Pappkarton in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pappkarton, spelled P-A-P-P-K-A-R-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Werkstoff aus einem festeren papierähnlichen Material (= Pappe)
- 2Behälter aus Pappe, der (meist) zum Aufbewahren zusammengelegt ist und zum Benutzen aufgestellt/aufgefaltet werden muss
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pappkarton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[Fridays for Future:] „Die meisten Teilnehmer sind Jugendliche: zwischen 12 und 17, ein paar Studenten und Grauhaarige sind auch mit dabei. Viele haben aus Pappkartons Schilder gebastelt.“
„Wir zeigen Ihnen, was für tolle Kinderspielzeuge Sie ganz einfach aus Pappkartons basteln können, ganz ohne dafür viel Geld ausgeben zu müssen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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