pipe
[paɪp]
The verdict
“pipe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,135) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,135
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Röhre, Rohr
Corpus desk
Index DE-pipe · pipe · German
pipe · rank #44,135 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,135
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Plastikmüll
Nearest frequency peer: Plastikmüll (+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 „pipe“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- pinkelt
pinkelt
55,869 corpus weight
- Pinken
Pinken
55,868 corpus weight
- pipe
pipe
55,866 corpus weight
- Plastikmüll
Plastikmüll
55,865 corpus weight
- platinum
platinum
55,864 corpus weight
- playa
playa
55,863 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „pipe“ 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 | pipe |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paɪp] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #44,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „pipe“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pipe is neighbouring look-alikes ("Pop", "PvP", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [paɪp]. Frequency #44,135 among 3,409 “P” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pipe, with forms such as "ippe", "pippe", and "ppie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pop", "PvP", "PPP", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is pipe, spelled P-I-P-E.
Definition
- 1Röhre, Rohr
- 2Tabakpfeife
- 3Flöte
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pipe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The containers are connected by a pipe.
Then he lit his pipe.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ippe
- pippe
- ppie
- ppipe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pipe - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pipe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).