Penner
[ˈpɛnɐ]
The verdict
“Penner” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,967
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (männliche^☆) Person mit ungepflegtem Äußeren, die sich auf der Straße aufhält und vermutlich kein Heim hat; Obdachloser
Corpus desk
Index DE-penner · Penner · German
Penner · rank #15,967 · 7 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,967
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Parolen
Nearest frequency peer: Parolen (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Penner“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- ordnet
ordnet
84,038 corpus weight
- orthodoxen
orthodoxen
84,037 corpus weight
- Parolen
Parolen
84,035 corpus weight
- Penner
Penner
84,034 corpus weight
- Planck
Planck
84,033 corpus weight
- Pokémon
Pokémon
84,032 corpus weight
What this shows „Penner“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Penner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɛnɐ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Penner“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Penner (IPA [ˈpɛnɐ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,967 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Penner, with forms such as "epnner", "penenr", and "pener". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Peter", "Penny", "planer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Penner, spelled P-E-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1(männliche^☆) Person mit ungepflegtem Äußeren, die sich auf der Straße aufhält und vermutlich kein Heim hat; Obdachloser
- 2(männliche^☆) Person, die durch ihre Taten oder ihr Verhalten negativ aufgefallen ist (häufig auf mangelnder Konzentration oder Vergesslichkeit beruhend)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Penner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Guck dir mal den Penner da drüben an.
„Er wollte anständig sein, aber da sind Schufte und Strolche und Lumpen, darum will Franz Biberkopf nichts mehr sehen und hören von der Welt, und wenn er Penner wird, er versauft den letzten Pfennig von seinem Geld.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnner
- penenr
- pener
- pennerr
- pennre
- pnener
- ppenner
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Penner - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Penner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).