piss
[pɪs]
The verdict
“piss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,133) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,133
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pissen
Corpus desk
Index DE-piss · piss · German
piss · rank #37,133 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,133
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH phänomenal
Nearest frequency peer: phänomenal (-2 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 „piss“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- pflegebedür…
pflegebedürftigen
62,871 corpus weight
- phänomenal
phänomenal
62,870 corpus weight
- piss
piss
62,868 corpus weight
- planlos
planlos
62,866 corpus weight
- Polarisieru…
Polarisierung
62,865 corpus weight
- Politikerin…
Politikerinnen
62,864 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „piss“ 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 | piss |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɪs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „piss“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for piss is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "psa", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [pɪs]. Frequency #37,133 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pissen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for piss, with forms such as "ipss", "piß", and "ppiss". 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, "PS", "psa", "Pos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is piss, spelled P-I-S-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs pissen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipss
- piß
- ppiss
- psis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piss - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).