Pilaster
[piˈlastɐ]
The verdict
“Pilaster” is uncommon German (frequency #84,409 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,409
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - teilweise in den Mauerverbund integrierter Pfeiler mit Basis und Kapitell
Corpus desk
Index DE-pilaster · Pilaster · German
Pilaster · rank #84,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,409
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pikanten
Nearest frequency peer: pikanten (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Pilaster“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Phänotyp
Phänotyp
15,594 corpus weight
- pikanten
pikanten
15,593 corpus weight
- Pilaster
Pilaster
15,592 corpus weight
- pill
pill
15,591 corpus weight
- Pinguinen
Pinguinen
15,590 corpus weight
- plakatieren
plakatieren
15,589 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pilaster“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pilaster |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piˈlastɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pilaster“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pilaster is uncommon German at frequency #84,409 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [piˈlastɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "teilweise in den Mauerverbund integrierter Pfeiler mit Basis und Kapitell".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Pilaster in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Pilaster, spelled P-I-L-A-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1teilweise in den Mauerverbund integrierter Pfeiler mit Basis und Kapitell
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pilaster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Zur Wandgestaltung und -gliederung wurden Pilaster bereits in der antiken griechischen Architektur verwendet […].“
„An den steinernen Pilastern waren in mittlerer Höhe eiserne Kanzeln angebracht, auf denen kommissarische Verwalter in der städtischen Amtstracht standen, die den Gang des lärmenden Getriebes überwachten.“
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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