Pinkel
[ˈpɪŋkl̩]
The verdict
“Pinkel” is uncommon German (frequency #59,074 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,074
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - jemand, der sich für vornehm hält und übertrieben so aufführt
Corpus desk
Index DE-pinkel · Pinkel · German
Pinkel · rank #59,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,074
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH piept
Nearest frequency peer: piept (-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 „Pinkel“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- physics
physics
40,931 corpus weight
- physiologis…
physiologisch
40,930 corpus weight
- Physiothera…
Physiotherapeut
40,929 corpus weight
- piept
piept
40,928 corpus weight
- Pinkel
Pinkel
40,927 corpus weight
- Polaroid
Polaroid
40,923 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Pinkel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pinkel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɪŋkl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Pinkel“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Pinkel is uncommon German at frequency #59,074 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈpɪŋkl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "jemand, der sich für vornehm hält und übertrieben so aufführt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pinkel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Pinkel, spelled P-I-N-K-E-L.
Definition
- 1jemand, der sich für vornehm hält und übertrieben so aufführt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pinkel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dein neuer Verlobter ist aber ein feiner Pinkel.
„Das war ein feiner Pinkel, der beim Aufzeigen immer mit den Fingern schnippte.“
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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