pes
[peːs]
The verdict
“pes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,402) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,402
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pesen
Corpus desk
Index DE-pes · pes · German
pes · rank #43,402 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,402
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Passes
Nearest frequency peer: Passes (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „pes“
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56,602 corpus weight
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56,601 corpus weight
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56,600 corpus weight
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56,599 corpus weight
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56,598 corpus weight
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56,597 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „pes“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | pes |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [peːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „pes“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pes is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [peːs]. Frequency #43,402 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pesen".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pes in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "Po", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is pes, spelled P-E-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pesen
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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