petunie
[ˈpɛtʊnɪjɛ]
The verdict
“petunie” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pflanzengattung aus der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse; Petunie
Corpus desk
Index DE-petunie · petunie · German
petunie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petunie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɛtʊnɪjɛ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „petunie“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
petunie is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpɛtʊnɪjɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pflanzengattung aus der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse; Petunie".
petunie has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is petunie, spelled P-E-T-U-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pflanzengattung aus der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse; Petunie
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how petunie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Petunie vyžadují dostatek vody.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.