Pirmasens
[ˈpɪʁmazɛns]
The verdict
“Pirmasens” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #27,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,451
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Stadt in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
Corpus desk
Index DE-pirmasens · Pirmasens · German
Pirmasens · rank #27,451 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,451
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pipi
Nearest frequency peer: Pipi (-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 “Pirmasens”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- piazza
piazza
72,554 corpus weight
- Pils
Pils
72,553 corpus weight
- Pipi
Pipi
72,551 corpus weight
- Pirmasens
Pirmasens
72,550 corpus weight
- Polka
Polka
72,548 corpus weight
- Postings
Postings
72,547 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pirmasens” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Pirmasens |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɪʁmazɛns] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Pirmasens” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Pirmasens (IPA [ˈpɪʁmazɛns]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,451 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Stadt in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pirmasens, with forms such as "iprmasens", "pimrasens", and "piramsens". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Präsens", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Pirmasens, spelled P-I-R-M-A-S-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1eine Stadt in Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pirmasens appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pirmasens liegt in der Pfalz.
„Während der Zeit Ludwigs IX. entstanden in Pirmasens einige neue Straßen, wie die Hauptstraße, die Schloßstraße und die Alleestraße.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iprmasens
- pimrasens
- piramsens
- pirmaesns
- pirmasenns
- pirmasenss
- pirmasesn
- pirmasnes
- pirmassens
- pirmmasens
- pirmsaens
- pirrmasens
- ppirmasens
- primasens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pirmasens - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Pirmasens", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "Pirmasens". Here's where to go from here.
- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "Präsens". View pair
- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #27,451 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.