pirsch
[pɪʁʃ]
The verdict
“pirsch” is uncommon German (frequency #69,587 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,587
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pirschen
Corpus desk
Index DE-pirsch · pirsch · German
pirsch · rank #69,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,587
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Pilzes
Nearest frequency peer: Pilzes (-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 „pirsch“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Phantoms
Phantoms
30,417 corpus weight
- photograph
photograph
30,416 corpus weight
- Pilzes
Pilzes
30,415 corpus weight
- pirsch
pirsch
30,414 corpus weight
- platonische
platonische
30,413 corpus weight
- Plünderer
Plünderer
30,412 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pirsch“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pirsch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɪʁʃ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pirsch“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pirsch is uncommon German at frequency #69,587 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [pɪʁʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pirschen".
No misspelling variants are generated for pirsch in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is pirsch, spelled P-I-R-S-C-H.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pirschen
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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