Perpetuum mobile
[pɛʁˌpeːtuʊm ˈmoːbilə]
The verdict
“Perpetuum mobile” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — fiktive Maschine, die einmal in Gang gesetzt, ohne Energiezufuhr ewig arbeitet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Perpetuum mobile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛʁˌpeːtuʊm ˈmoːbilə] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Perpetuum mobile” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Perpetuum mobile is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pɛʁˌpeːtuʊm ˈmoːbilə]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "fiktive Maschine, die einmal in Gang gesetzt, ohne Energiezufuhr ewig arbeitet".
No misspelling variants are generated for Perpetuum mobile 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 Perpetuum mobile, spelled P-E-R-P-E-T-U-U-M- -M-O-B-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1fiktive Maschine, die einmal in Gang gesetzt, ohne Energiezufuhr ewig arbeitet
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- The one correct German spelling is P-E-R-P-E-T-U-U-M- -M-O-B-I-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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