Pfennige
[ˈp͡fɛnɪɡə]
The verdict
“Pfennige” is uncommon German (frequency #54,794 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,794
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Pfennig
Corpus desk
Index DE-pfennige · Pfennige · German
Pfennige · rank #54,794 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,794
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH peruanischen
Nearest frequency peer: peruanischen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Pfennige”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- perplex
perplex
45,209 corpus weight
- peruanischen
peruanischen
45,208 corpus weight
- Pfennige
Pfennige
45,207 corpus weight
- Pflegefamil…
Pflegefamilie
45,206 corpus weight
- pflegeleicht
pflegeleicht
45,205 corpus weight
- Pietismus
Pietismus
45,204 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pfennige” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pfennige |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈp͡fɛnɪɡə] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,794 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pfennige” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pfennige is uncommon German at frequency #54,794 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈp͡fɛnɪɡə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pfennige, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Pfennige, spelled P-F-E-N-N-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Pfennig
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Pfennig
- 3Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Pfennig
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pfennige", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.