Pips
[pɪps]
The verdict
“Pips” is uncommon German (frequency #85,691 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,691
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - „krankhafter Belag auf der Zunge … beim Geflügel“
Corpus desk
Index DE-pips · Pips · German
Pips · rank #85,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,691
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH più
Nearest frequency peer: più (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Pips”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pervertiert
pervertiert
14,314 corpus weight
- Pietät
Pietät
14,312 corpus weight
- Pips
Pips
14,310 corpus weight
- più
più
14,309 corpus weight
- Platzregen
Platzregen
14,308 corpus weight
- Platzverwei…
Platzverweise
14,307 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pips” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pips |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɪps] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pips” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Pips is uncommon German at frequency #85,691 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɪps]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Pips doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Pips, spelled P-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1„krankhafter Belag auf der Zunge … beim Geflügel“
- 2umgangssprachlich in der Redewendung den/einen Pips haben/bekommen/sich holen für Erkältung
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pips appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die haben sich wahrscheinlich alle den Pips geholt.“
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.