peacock
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The verdict
“peacock” is uncommon German (frequency #80,778 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,778
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vogel mit auffälligem Schwanzgefieder: Pfau (männlich)
Corpus desk
Index DE-peacock · peacock · German
peacock · rank #80,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,778
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH patience
Nearest frequency peer: patience (-2 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 „peacock“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- parteiinter…
parteiinterne
19,227 corpus weight
- parteilosen
parteilosen
19,226 corpus weight
- patience
patience
19,225 corpus weight
- peacock
peacock
19,223 corpus weight
- Personifika…
Personifikation
19,221 corpus weight
- Pfingstsonn…
Pfingstsonntag
19,220 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „peacock“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peacock |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „peacock“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
peacock is uncommon German at frequency #80,778 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
peacock doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct German form is peacock, spelled P-E-A-C-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1Vogel mit auffälligem Schwanzgefieder: Pfau (männlich)
- 2stolze Person: Pfau, eitler Geck
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peacock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"From time immemorial, the blue peacock has enjoyed freedom within this vast region to roam at will through forests, villages, in sacred temples and royal palaces."
His fastidious attention to appearance gave him a reputation as a bit of a peacock or dandy.
Antonyms
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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