Pflege
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,676
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
Pflege is aGermannoun. It means: Fürsorge, Betreuung und Versorgung von Menschen oder Tieren, die gewisse Hilfe benötigen Pronounced [ˈp͡fleːɡə]. It ranks #2,676 in German word frequency. Often confused with plage and Pflug.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pflege |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈp͡fleːɡə] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Pflege is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈp͡fleːɡə]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,676 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Pflege, with forms such as "fplege", "pfelge", and "pfflege". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "plage", "Pflug", "pflegt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Pflege, spelled P-F-L-E-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fürsorge, Betreuung und Versorgung von Menschen oder Tieren, die gewisse Hilfe benötigen
- 2sämtliche Maßnahmen und Handlungen, die dazu dienen, etwas (Materielles oder Geistiges) zu erhalten, zu bewahren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fplege,pfelge,pfflege,pfleeg,pflegge,pflgee,pfllege,plfege,ppflege
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Pflege
Misspelling Variants of "Pflege"
Frequency rank: #2,676 in German
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