pas
[pa]
The verdict
“pas” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,718) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,718
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schritt, Tritt
Corpus desk
Index DE-pas · pas · German
pas · rank #10,718 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,718
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Oxford
Nearest frequency peer: Oxford (-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 „pas“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- originale
originale
89,286 corpus weight
- Oxford
Oxford
89,284 corpus weight
- pas
pas
89,283 corpus weight
- passte
passte
89,282 corpus weight
- patent
patent
89,281 corpus weight
- Perlen
Perlen
89,280 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „pas“ 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 | pas |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „pas“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pas is neighbouring look-alikes ("PC", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [pa]. Frequency #10,718 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Schritt, Tritt".
Zero misspellings are on record for pas in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 pas, spelled P-A-S.
Definition
- 1Schritt, Tritt
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).