Pfand
[p͡fant]
The verdict
“Pfand” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,016
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gegenstand eines Sicherungsgebers, welcher vorübergehend bei einem Nehmer verbleibt, als Sicherheit für etwas, das der Geber diesem Nehmer schuldet
Corpus desk
Index DE-pfand · Pfand · German
Pfand · rank #18,016 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,016
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pfefferspray
Nearest frequency peer: Pfefferspray (+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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Pfand“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- patente
patente
81,988 corpus weight
- Patrioten
Patrioten
81,987 corpus weight
- Pfand
Pfand
81,985 corpus weight
- Pfefferspray
Pfefferspray
81,984 corpus weight
- Pfeiler
Pfeiler
81,983 corpus weight
- Pflegeheim
Pflegeheim
81,982 corpus weight
What this shows „Pfand“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Pfand |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [p͡fant] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Pfand“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Pfand (IPA [p͡fant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,016 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pfand, with forms such as "fpand", "pafnd", and "pfadn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Plan", "Pfau", "Pferd", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Pfand, spelled P-F-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Gegenstand eines Sicherungsgebers, welcher vorübergehend bei einem Nehmer verbleibt, als Sicherheit für etwas, das der Geber diesem Nehmer schuldet
- 2Geldbetrag, der bei Rückgabe eines geliehenen Leergutes erstattet wird
- 3Gabe, Geisel als Bürgschaft
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pfand appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Kredite müssen auf Wunsch verlängert werden, die Pfänder dürfen nicht vor Ablauf von vier Monaten versteigert werden.“
„Der Schmuck war ein Pfand, ein Pfand von einem Viehhändler für den Großvater, aus der Inflationszeit nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, und der Händler hat das Pfand nicht eingelöst, und so hat es der Großvater mir vererbt.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fpand
- pafnd
- pfadn
- pfandd
- pfannd
- pffand
- pfnad
- ppfand
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pfand - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pfand", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).