perfet
[pəɾˈfet]
The verdict
“perfet” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — das Pretèrit perfet (die abgeschlossene Vergangenheit) oder kurz das perfet wird für die Beschreibung eines in der Vergangenheit abgeschlossenen Vorganges verwendet. Bei Verben der Dauer, die nicht...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perfet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pəɾˈfet] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “perfet” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for perfet is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pəɾˈfet]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for perfet in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 perfet, spelled P-E-R-F-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1das Pretèrit perfet (die abgeschlossene Vergangenheit) oder kurz das perfet wird für die Beschreibung eines in der Vergangenheit abgeschlossenen Vorganges verwendet. Bei Verben der Dauer, die nicht abgeschlossene Handlungen wiedergeben, zeigt das Pretèrit perfet den Beginn der Handlung an. Das Pretèrit perfet kommt in der katalanischen Sprache in 2 Ausprägungen vor, dem Pretèrit perfet simple und dem Pretèrit perfet perifràstic
- 2Das Pretèrit perfet simple wird in Katalonien v. a. in der gehobenen Schriftsprache, im valenzianischen Sprachgebiet und auf den Balearen allerdings auch mündlich verwendet. Beispiel dinar: diní, dinares, dinà, dinàrem, dinareu, dinaren
- 3Quan era a Berlin, el President John F. Kennedy digué: „Ich bin ein Berliner!“.
- 4Quan era a Berlin, el President John F. Kennedy digué: „Ich bin ein Berliner!“.
- 5Das Pretèrit perfet perifràstic kommt sowohl in der Umgangs- als auch in der Schriftsprache vor.
- 6Beispiel dinar: vaig dinar, vas dinar, va dinar, vam dinar, vau dinar, van dinar
- 7El diumenge passat vaig dinar en un restaurant italià.
- 8El diumenge passat vaig dinar en un restaurant italià.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “perfet”
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- The one correct German spelling is P-E-R-F-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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