Pau
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The verdict
“Pau” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,946) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,946
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt in Südfrankreich
Corpus desk
Index DE-pau · Pau · German
Pau · rank #49,946 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,946
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH peinliches
Nearest frequency peer: peinliches (+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 „Pau“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- orders
orders
50,060 corpus weight
- packende
packende
50,059 corpus weight
- Paddel
Paddel
50,058 corpus weight
- Pau
Pau
50,055 corpus weight
- peinliches
peinliches
50,054 corpus weight
- peperoni
peperoni
50,052 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Pau“ 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 | Pau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Pau“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Pau is neighbouring look-alikes ("PC", "PS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced […]. Frequency #49,946 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Stadt in Südfrankreich".
Zero misspellings are on record for Pau in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PC", "PS", "Pr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Pau, spelled P-A-U.
Definition
- 1Stadt in Südfrankreich
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Francois und Susanne waren gerade in Pau, Südfrankreich, wo sie auf der Suche nach dem weltbesten Rezept für Gänseleberpastete war.“
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).