perhaps
[pəˈhæps]
The verdict
“perhaps” is uncommon German (frequency #83,152 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,152
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - vielleicht
Corpus desk
Index DE-perhaps · perhaps · German
perhaps · rank #83,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,152
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Perspektivenw…
Nearest frequency peer: Perspektivenwechsel (+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 „perhaps“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- peoples
peoples
16,852 corpus weight
- perception
perception
16,851 corpus weight
- perhaps
perhaps
16,849 corpus weight
- Perspektive…
Perspektivenwechsel
16,848 corpus weight
- Phenol
Phenol
16,846 corpus weight
- pickt
pickt
16,844 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „perhaps“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | perhaps |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [pəˈhæps] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „perhaps“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
perhaps is uncommon German at frequency #83,152 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed [pəˈhæps]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "vielleicht".
Zero misspellings are on record for perhaps in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 perhaps, spelled P-E-R-H-A-P-S.
Definition
- 1vielleicht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how perhaps appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perhaps it will rain tomorrow.
Synonyms
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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