par
[paʁ]
The verdict
“par” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,336) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,336
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - à, je, zu, durch, kraft, mit, mittelst, vermittels, per; hindurch^(???), quer mitten^(???)
Corpus desk
Index DE-par · par · German
par · rank #10,336 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,336
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH og
Nearest frequency peer: og (-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 „par“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Netze
Netze
89,668 corpus weight
- north
north
89,667 corpus weight
- og
og
89,666 corpus weight
- par
par
89,665 corpus weight
- Pausen
Pausen
89,664 corpus weight
- pay
pay
89,663 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „par“ 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 | par |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [paʁ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „par“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for par is neighbouring look-alikes ("PC", "PS", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [paʁ]. Frequency #10,336 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "à, je, zu, durch, kraft, mit, mittelst, vermittels, per; hindurch^(???), quer mitten^(???)".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for par, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PC", "PS", "Pr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is par, spelled P-A-R.
Definition
- 1à, je, zu, durch, kraft, mit, mittelst, vermittels, per; hindurch^(???), quer mitten^(???)
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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