Paraffin
[paʁaˈfiːn]
The verdict
“Paraffin” is uncommon German (frequency #89,394 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,394
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wachsähnlicher, brennbarer Stoff
Corpus desk
Index DE-paraffin · Paraffin · German
Paraffin · rank #89,394 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,394
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Panoramen
Nearest frequency peer: Panoramen (-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 „Paraffin“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Palmengarten
Palmengarten
10,610 corpus weight
- Panoptikum
Panoptikum
10,609 corpus weight
- Panoramen
Panoramen
10,608 corpus weight
- Paraffin
Paraffin
10,607 corpus weight
- parasitäre
parasitäre
10,606 corpus weight
- parodieren
parodieren
10,605 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Paraffin“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paraffin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paʁaˈfiːn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Paraffin“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Paraffin is uncommon German at frequency #89,394 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [paʁaˈfiːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "wachsähnlicher, brennbarer Stoff".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Paraffin in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Paraffin, spelled P-A-R-A-F-F-I-N.
Definition
- 1wachsähnlicher, brennbarer Stoff
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Paraffin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Als sie merkte, daß Gustav sie anstarrte, erklärte sie ihm sanft, als spreche sie zu einem Kind, sie wäre nicht sicher gewesen, ob die Tonbänder brennbar seien, und habe sie deshalb mit Paraffin tränken müssen.“
„Der Geist - oder was immer im Dunkeln umhergeschwebt war - hatte seine Hände in Paraffin getaucht und einen Abdruck hinterlassen.“
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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