pets
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The verdict
“pets” is uncommon German (frequency #97,503 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,503
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs pet
Corpus desk
Index DE-pets · pets · German
pets · rank #97,503 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,503
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pflanzenwachs…
Nearest frequency peer: Pflanzenwachstum (+2 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 „pets“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Parlamentsp…
Parlamentspräsidenten
2,504 corpus weight
- pathetischen
pathetischen
2,502 corpus weight
- Peilung
Peilung
2,501 corpus weight
- pets
pets
2,498 corpus weight
- Pflanzenwac…
Pflanzenwachstum
2,496 corpus weight
- Phonologie
Phonologie
2,494 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pets“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pets |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pets“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pets is uncommon German at frequency #97,503 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs pet".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pets in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pets, spelled P-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs pet
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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