pig
[pɪɡ]
The verdict
“pig” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,384) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,384
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Schwein
Corpus desk
Index DE-pig · pig · German
pig · rank #48,384 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,384
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Photovoltaika…
Nearest frequency peer: Photovoltaikanlage (-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 „pig“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Pferdeschwa…
Pferdeschwanz
51,620 corpus weight
- pflügen
pflügen
51,619 corpus weight
- Photovoltai…
Photovoltaikanlage
51,618 corpus weight
- pig
pig
51,617 corpus weight
- pikante
pikante
51,616 corpus weight
- plata
plata
51,613 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „pig“ 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 | pig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɪɡ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „pig“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pig is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [pɪɡ]. Frequency #48,384 among 3,409 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for pig in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "Po", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is pig, spelled P-I-G.
Definition
- 1Schwein
- 2Bulle
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pig appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is a trend to acquire pigs as pets.
»This pigs arrested him!«
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).