Pax
[paks]
The verdict
“Pax” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,276) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,276
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Friede, meist in Verbindungen gebraucht
Corpus desk
Index DE-pax · Pax · German
Pax · rank #29,276 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,276
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Parcours
Nearest frequency peer: Parcours (-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 „Pax“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- OVG
OVG
70,728 corpus weight
- pah
pah
70,727 corpus weight
- Parcours
Parcours
70,726 corpus weight
- Pax
Pax
70,725 corpus weight
- Perioden
Perioden
70,723 corpus weight
- Petitionen
Petitionen
70,722 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Pax“ 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 | Pax |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Pax“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Pax is neighbouring look-alikes ("PC", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [paks]. Frequency #29,276 among 3,409 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for Pax 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Pax, spelled P-A-X.
Definition
- 1Friede, meist in Verbindungen gebraucht
- 2römische Friedensgöttin
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pax appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wie wird man die Zeitspanne, die am 11. September 2001 mit einem so ungeheuren Terroranschlag begann und die in diesen Wochen mit einem so monströsen Systemabsturz endet – wie wird man dieses kurze Jahrzehnt einmal nennen, in dem das 20. Jahrhundert sich auflöste, die erstaunlich lange Pax Americana?
Der Friedensgöttin Pax wurde im antiken Rom ein Tempel errichtet, wo sie große Verehrung genoss.
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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