people

/[piːpl]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,091

in German word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

6

similar word pairs

people is aGermannoun. It means: das Volk Pronounced [piːpl]. It ranks #7,091 in German word frequency. Often confused with Pole and pepe.

Key facts for people
PropertyValue
Headwordpeople
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[piːpl]
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,091
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of people in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for people is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [piːpl]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,091 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for people, with forms such as "epople", "peolpe", and "peopel". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Pole", "pepe", "Pope", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 people, spelled P-E-O-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    das Volk
  2. 2
    die Leute, die Menschen

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epople,peolpe,peopel,peoplle,peopple,pepole,poeple,ppeople

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for people

Misspelling Variants of "people"

epople6peolpe6peopel6peoplle7peopple7pepole6poeple6ppeople7
Misspelling Variants of "people"

Frequency rank: #7,091 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "people"?
"people" is spelled P-E-O-P-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [piːpl].
What does "people" mean?
As a noun, "people" means: das Volk
What words are commonly confused with "people"?
"people" is commonly confused with "Pole", "pepe", "Pope". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "people"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "people" is [piːpl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "people" come from?
"people" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our German index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.