picks
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The verdict
“picks” is uncommon German (frequency #81,985 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,985
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs pick
Corpus desk
Index DE-picks · picks · German
picks · rank #81,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,985
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Piacenza
Nearest frequency peer: Piacenza (-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 “picks”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- philologisc…
philologische
18,020 corpus weight
- philosophic…
philosophical
18,019 corpus weight
- phänomenale
phänomenale
18,018 corpus weight
- Piacenza
Piacenza
18,017 corpus weight
- picks
picks
18,016 corpus weight
- Planern
Planern
18,014 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “picks” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | picks |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #81,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “picks” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
picks is uncommon German at frequency #81,985 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs pick".
No generated misspelling entries exist for picks in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 picks, spelled P-I-C-K-S.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs pick
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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