Planspiel
[ˈplaːnˌʃpiːl]
The verdict
“Planspiel” is an uncommon German word, ranked #68,566 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #68,566
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Methode zur Simulation und zum Training komplexer Vorhaben, etwa in Form einer militärischen Übung, eines Manövers, systematisches Üben eines Modellfalls
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Planspiel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplaːnˌʃpiːl] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Planspiel” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Planspiel is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈplaːnˌʃpiːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #68,566 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Methode zur Simulation und zum Training komplexer Vorhaben, etwa in Form einer militärischen Übung, eines Manövers, systematisches Üben eines Modellfalls".
Planspiel doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Planspiel, spelled P-L-A-N-S-P-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Methode zur Simulation und zum Training komplexer Vorhaben, etwa in Form einer militärischen Übung, eines Manövers, systematisches Üben eines Modellfalls
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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Using “Planspiel”
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- The one correct German spelling is P-L-A-N-S-P-I-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.