Pickelhaube
[ˈpɪkl̩ˌhaʊ̯bə]
The verdict
“Pickelhaube” is uncommon German (frequency #78,400 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,400
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Helm mit nach oben gerichteter Spitze (für Soldaten)
Corpus desk
Index DE-pickelhaube · Pickelhaube · German
Pickelhaube · rank #78,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,400
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Photon
Nearest frequency peer: Photon (-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 “Pickelhaube”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pflückt
pflückt
21,605 corpus weight
- Pharmakonze…
Pharmakonzerne
21,604 corpus weight
- Philister
Philister
21,603 corpus weight
- Photon
Photon
21,602 corpus weight
- Pickelhaube
Pickelhaube
21,601 corpus weight
- pipes
pipes
21,598 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pickelhaube” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pickelhaube |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɪkl̩ˌhaʊ̯bə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pickelhaube” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pickelhaube is uncommon German at frequency #78,400 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpɪkl̩ˌhaʊ̯bə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Helm mit nach oben gerichteter Spitze (für Soldaten)".
Pickelhaube doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct German form is Pickelhaube, spelled P-I-C-K-E-L-H-A-U-B-E.
Definition
- 1Helm mit nach oben gerichteter Spitze (für Soldaten)
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 11 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.