Pechvogel
[ˈpɛçˌfoːɡl̩]
The verdict
“Pechvogel” is uncommon German (frequency #68,553 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,553
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Person, die wenig Glück, stattdessen viel Pech hat
Corpus desk
Index DE-pechvogel · Pechvogel · German
Pechvogel · rank #68,553 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,553
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Peitz
Nearest frequency peer: Peitz (+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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Pechvogel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Parteilinie
Parteilinie
31,451 corpus weight
- parteiüberg…
parteiübergreifend
31,450 corpus weight
- Pechvogel
Pechvogel
31,448 corpus weight
- Peitz
Peitz
31,447 corpus weight
- pens
pens
31,446 corpus weight
- pensioniert…
pensionierter
31,445 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pechvogel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pechvogel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɛçˌfoːɡl̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pechvogel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pechvogel is uncommon German at frequency #68,553 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpɛçˌfoːɡl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Person, die wenig Glück, stattdessen viel Pech hat".
Pechvogel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pechvogel, spelled P-E-C-H-V-O-G-E-L.
Definition
- 1eine Person, die wenig Glück, stattdessen viel Pech hat
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pechvogel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieter ist ein echter Pechvogel, er hatte diese Woche schon drei Autounfälle.
„Denn in seiner Einsiedelei sollte der Pechvogel, der bisher kein Glück im Privatleben hatte, endlich eine Gefährtin für die guten und die schlechten Tage finden.“
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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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