pendant ce temps
[pɑ̃.dɑ̃.sə.tɑ̃]
The verdict
“pendant ce temps” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — während dieser Zeit, mittlerweile
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pendant ce temps |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [pɑ̃.dɑ̃.sə.tɑ̃] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pendant ce temps” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for pendant ce temps is 16 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɑ̃.dɑ̃.sə.tɑ̃]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "während dieser Zeit, mittlerweile".
No misspelling variants are generated for pendant ce temps in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pendant ce temps, spelled P-E-N-D-A-N-T- -C-E- -T-E-M-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1während dieser Zeit, mittlerweile
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is P-E-N-D-A-N-T- -C-E- -T-E-M-P-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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