Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,257
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
PDF is anGermanabbrev. It means: Portable Document Format, Dateiformat, das sich problemlos auf verschiedenen Softwareplattformen austauschen lässt Pronounced [ˌpeːdeːˈʔɛf]. It ranks #2,257 in German word frequency. Often confused with PS and Pr.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbrev |
| IPA | [ˌpeːdeːˈʔɛf] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for PDF is 3 letters long, classified as anabbrev, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌpeːdeːˈʔɛf]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,257 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for PDF in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "Po", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is PDF, spelled P-D-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Portable Document Format, Dateiformat, das sich problemlos auf verschiedenen Softwareplattformen austauschen lässt
- 2Datei im Format PDF^([1])
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Frequency rank: #2,257 in German
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