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Penny

German, noun[ˈpɛni]

Penny is spelled P-E-N-N-Y (5 letters) and appears 5.6 times per million words in written German, the 11,196th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Penny is a German masculine noun meaning “penny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Währungseinheit in Großbritannien”.

What does Penny mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepenny

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Währungseinheit in Großbritannien

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of Penny

  • Pennys genitive
  • Pence plural
  • Pencen dative definite plural
  • p abbreviation

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Penny?

  • [ˈpɛni]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to Penny

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Penny in German?

Penny appears 5.6 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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