pius
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,671
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pius is anGermanadj. It means: seinen eigenen moralischen Verpflichtungen nachkommend; pflichtbewusst, gewissenhaft, pflichtgetreu Often confused with PS and Pu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pius |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,671 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for pius is 4 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #19,671 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pius, with forms such as "ipus", "pisu", and "piuss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pu", "PUR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is pius, spelled P-I-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1seinen eigenen moralischen Verpflichtungen nachkommend; pflichtbewusst, gewissenhaft, pflichtgetreu
- 2verstorben und zu Lebzeiten tugendhaft gewesen; selig
- 3von tugendhaft Verstorbenen bewohnt; selig
- 4den moralischen Ansprüchen entsprechend; ehrlich, billig, gerecht, rechtmäßig
- 5gerecht, rechtmäßig
- 6seinen religiösen Verpflichtungen nachkommend; fromm, gottesfürchtig
- 7für die religiöse Praktik geeignet; fromm, gottgefällig
- 8seinen familiären Verpflichtungen gegenüber seinen Eltern nachkommend; pflichtgetreu
- 9seinen familiären Verpflichtungen gegenüber seinem Ehepartner nachkommend; pflichtgetreu, liebevoll
- 10seinen sozialen Verpflichtungen gegenüber einen Freunden und anderen nachkommend; pflichtgetreu, lieb, vertraut
- 11seinen sozialen Verpflichtungen gegenüber einer Autorität nachkommend; pflichtgetreu
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipus,pisu,piuss,ppius,puis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pius
Misspelling Variants of "pius"
Frequency rank: #19,671 in German
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