plaisir
[ple.ziːʁ]
The verdict
“plaisir” is uncommon German (frequency #92,068 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,068
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Freude, Genuss, Vergnügen, Wohlgefallen
Corpus desk
Index DE-plaisir · plaisir · German
plaisir · rank #92,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,068
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH plagte
Nearest frequency peer: plagte (-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 „plaisir“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- picking
picking
7,937 corpus weight
- pies
pies
7,936 corpus weight
- pietätlos
pietätlos
7,935 corpus weight
- plagte
plagte
7,934 corpus weight
- plaisir
plaisir
7,933 corpus weight
- plattgemacht
plattgemacht
7,931 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „plaisir“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plaisir |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ple.ziːʁ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #92,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „plaisir“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
plaisir is uncommon German at frequency #92,068 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ple.ziːʁ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Freude, Genuss, Vergnügen, Wohlgefallen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plaisir, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 plaisir, spelled P-L-A-I-S-I-R.
Definition
- 1Freude, Genuss, Vergnügen, Wohlgefallen
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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