piller
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The verdict
“piller” is uncommon German (frequency #77,172 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,172
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Darreichungsform für Arzneimittel und Ähnliches in Form eines kleinen Kügelchens; Pille
Corpus desk
Index DE-piller · piller · German
piller · rank #77,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,172
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pierrot
Nearest frequency peer: Pierrot (-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 „piller“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pianos
Pianos
22,832 corpus weight
- piel
piel
22,831 corpus weight
- Pierrot
Pierrot
22,830 corpus weight
- piller
piller
22,829 corpus weight
- Pionierin
Pionierin
22,828 corpus weight
- pixar
pixar
22,827 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „piller“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piller |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „piller“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
piller is uncommon German at frequency #77,172 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Darreichungsform für Arzneimittel und Ähnliches in Form eines kleinen Kügelchens; Pille".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for piller, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 piller, spelled P-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Darreichungsform für Arzneimittel und Ähnliches in Form eines kleinen Kügelchens; Pille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how piller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nästan en halv miljon svenskar tar piller mot depression.
Synonyms
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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