pfarr
[p͡faʁ]
The verdict
“pfarr” is uncommon German (frequency #50,784 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,784
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pfarren
Corpus desk
Index DE-pfarr · pfarr · German
pfarr · rank #50,784 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,784
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pfiffe
Nearest frequency peer: Pfiffe (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pfarr”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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patchwork
49,222 corpus weight
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49,220 corpus weight
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pfarr
49,217 corpus weight
- Pfiffe
Pfiffe
49,215 corpus weight
- Pfändung
Pfändung
49,214 corpus weight
- pino
pino
49,213 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pfarr” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pfarr |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [p͡faʁ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “pfarr” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
pfarr is uncommon German at frequency #50,784 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [p͡faʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pfarren".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pfarr, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pfarr, spelled P-F-A-R-R.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pfarren
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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