pens
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The verdict
“pens” is uncommon German (frequency #68,555 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,555
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs pen
Corpus desk
Index DE-pens · pens · German
pens · rank #68,555 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,555
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- 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 „pens“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pechvogel
Pechvogel
31,448 corpus weight
- Peitz
Peitz
31,447 corpus weight
- pens
pens
31,446 corpus weight
- pensioniert…
pensionierter
31,445 corpus weight
- percent
percent
31,444 corpus weight
- periphere
periphere
31,443 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pens“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pens |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #68,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pens“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pens is uncommon German at frequency #68,555 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs pen".
pens doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is pens, spelled P-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs pen
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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