per
[pɛʁ]
The verdict
“per” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #673) as a preposition. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #673
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - mittels
Corpus desk
Index DE-per · per · German
per · rank #673 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #673
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH P
Nearest frequency peer: P (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “per”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Freund
Freund
99,331 corpus weight
- insbesondere
insbesondere
99,330 corpus weight
- P
P
99,329 corpus weight
- per
per
99,328 corpus weight
- Peter
Peter
99,327 corpus weight
- Raum
Raum
99,326 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “per” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | per |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | [pɛʁ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “per” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for per is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is apreposition pronounced [pɛʁ]. Frequency #673 among 3,409 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
per doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "Po", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is per, spelled P-E-R.
Definition
- 1mittels
- 2bezogen auf
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how per appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peter versandte den Brief per Post.
„Auch der Q8 ist ein Crossover, er wird vornehmlich elektrisch und per Plug-in-Hybrid angetrieben, Debüt wahrscheinlich nicht vor 2018.“
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.