Pfarre
[ˈp͡faʁə]
The verdict
“Pfarre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,706. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,706
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - von einem Pfarrer geleitete, unterste kirchliche Behörde
Corpus desk
Index DE-pfarre · Pfarre · German
Pfarre · rank #32,706 · 6 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,706
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pflanzenwelt
Nearest frequency peer: Pflanzenwelt (+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 „Pfarre“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Personalabt…
Personalabteilung
67,299 corpus weight
- Personengru…
Personengruppen
67,298 corpus weight
- pessimistis…
pessimistisch
67,297 corpus weight
- Pfarre
Pfarre
67,295 corpus weight
- Pflanzenwelt
Pflanzenwelt
67,294 corpus weight
- Pharmazie
Pharmazie
67,291 corpus weight
What this shows „Pfarre“ 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 | Pfarre |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈp͡faʁə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #32,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Pfarre“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Pfarre (IPA [ˈp͡faʁə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,706 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "von einem Pfarrer geleitete, unterste kirchliche Behörde".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pfarre, with forms such as "fparre", "pafrre", and "pfare". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Pferde", "pierre", "Pforte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pfarre, spelled P-F-A-R-R-E.
Definition
- 1von einem Pfarrer geleitete, unterste kirchliche Behörde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pfarre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei der Anlage der Siedlungen war auch sogleich im Bedarfsfalle der Raum für eine Kirche und Pfarre und deren Ausstattung mit Land in Betracht zu ziehen.“
„Als mein herzloser Taufpate fortgegangen war, sprach ich zu Signor Malipiero ganz offen; ich sagte ihm klipp und klar, daß ich mir eine andere Pfarre suchen würde, denn ich wolle um keinen Preis länger jemandem unterstellt sein, der solcher Übergriffe fähig sei.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fparre
- pafrre
- pfare
- pffarre
- pfrare
- ppfarre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pfarre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Pfarre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).