pelikan
[pɛˈlʲikan]
The verdict
“pelikan” is uncommon German (frequency #55,600 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,600
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pelikan (Pelecanus)
Corpus desk
Index DE-pelikan · pelikan · German
pelikan · rank #55,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,600
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH peck
Nearest frequency peer: peck (-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 „pelikan“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- partiellen
partiellen
44,405 corpus weight
- peck
peck
44,402 corpus weight
- pelikan
pelikan
44,401 corpus weight
- penguin
penguin
44,400 corpus weight
- Penne
Penne
44,399 corpus weight
- Petershagen
Petershagen
44,398 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pelikan“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pelikan |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛˈlʲikan] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pelikan“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pelikan is uncommon German at frequency #55,600 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɛˈlʲikan]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pelikan (Pelecanus)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pelikan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is pelikan, spelled P-E-L-I-K-A-N.
Definition
- 1Pelikan (Pelecanus)
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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