Perlmutt
[ˈpɛʁlmʊt]
The verdict
“Perlmutt” is uncommon German (frequency #79,576 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,576
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - innerste, glänzende Schicht bestimmter Schalen bildender Mollusken, etwa Perlmuscheln und Seeschnecken
Corpus desk
Index DE-perlmutt · Perlmutt · German
Perlmutt · rank #79,576 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,576
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Perleberg
Nearest frequency peer: Perleberg (-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 „Perlmutt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Perleberg
Perleberg
20,426 corpus weight
- Perlmutt
Perlmutt
20,425 corpus weight
- pero
pero
20,424 corpus weight
- perspectives
perspectives
20,423 corpus weight
- petz
petz
20,422 corpus weight
- Pflanzenfre…
Pflanzenfresser
20,421 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Perlmutt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perlmutt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɛʁlmʊt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,576 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Perlmutt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Perlmutt is uncommon German at frequency #79,576 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpɛʁlmʊt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "innerste, glänzende Schicht bestimmter Schalen bildender Mollusken, etwa Perlmuscheln und Seeschnecken".
Perlmutt has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Perlmutt, spelled P-E-R-L-M-U-T-T.
Definition
- 1innerste, glänzende Schicht bestimmter Schalen bildender Mollusken, etwa Perlmuscheln und Seeschnecken
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Perlmutt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Um das Perlmutt zu sehen, muss man die Muschel öffnen.
Der Beitrag der Nanotechnik: Kunststoffe lassen sich durch Nanoplättchen aus Silikaten verstärken. Dieses Prinzip findet sich auch in der Natur, im Perlmutt.
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.
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