PHP
[peːhaːˈpeː]
The verdict
“PHP” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,670) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,670
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - serverseitige Skriptsprache, die entweder in HTML eingebettet oder per Konsole aufgerufen wird
Corpus desk
Index DE-php · PHP · German
PHP · rank #19,670 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,670
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Phillip
Nearest frequency peer: Phillip (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „PHP“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- permanenten
permanenten
80,334 corpus weight
- Phillip
Phillip
80,332 corpus weight
- PHP
PHP
80,331 corpus weight
- pius
pius
80,330 corpus weight
- planer
planer
80,329 corpus weight
- plans
plans
80,328 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „PHP“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | PHP |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peːhaːˈpeː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,670 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „PHP“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PHP is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [peːhaːˈpeː]. Frequency #19,670 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "serverseitige Skriptsprache, die entweder in HTML eingebettet oder per Konsole aufgerufen wird".
PHP has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "Po", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is PHP, spelled P-H-P.
Definition
- 1serverseitige Skriptsprache, die entweder in HTML eingebettet oder per Konsole aufgerufen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PHP appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dieses Projekt wurde mit PHP programmiert.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).