Pille danach
[ˈpɪlə daˈnaːx]
The verdict
“Pille danach” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Medikament, das eine Schwangerschaft verhindert, wenn es spätestens zwei Tage nach der Befruchtung der Eizelle beziehungsweise dem ungeschützten Geschlechtsverkehr eingenommen wird
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pille danach |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɪlə daˈnaːx] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pille danach” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Pille danach is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpɪlə daˈnaːx]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Medikament, das eine Schwangerschaft verhindert, wenn es spätestens zwei Tage nach der Befruchtung der Eizelle beziehungsweise dem ungeschützten Geschlechtsverkehr eingenommen wird".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pille danach in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Pille danach, spelled P-I-L-L-E- -D-A-N-A-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Medikament, das eine Schwangerschaft verhindert, wenn es spätestens zwei Tage nach der Befruchtung der Eizelle beziehungsweise dem ungeschützten Geschlechtsverkehr eingenommen wird
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- The one correct German spelling is P-I-L-L-E- -D-A-N-A-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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