Planwagen
[ˈplaːnˌvaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“Planwagen” is uncommon German (frequency #96,077 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,077
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - mit einer Plane bedeckter Wagen
Corpus desk
Index DE-planwagen · Planwagen · German
Planwagen · rank #96,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,077
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH piri
Nearest frequency peer: piri (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Planwagen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Physikers
Physikers
3,928 corpus weight
- piri
piri
3,925 corpus weight
- Planwagen
Planwagen
3,924 corpus weight
- Poel
Poel
3,923 corpus weight
- Pogromen
Pogromen
3,921 corpus weight
- poisson
poisson
3,920 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Planwagen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Planwagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈplaːnˌvaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #96,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Planwagen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Planwagen is uncommon German at frequency #96,077 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈplaːnˌvaːɡn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "mit einer Plane bedeckter Wagen".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Planwagen, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Planwagen, spelled P-L-A-N-W-A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1mit einer Plane bedeckter Wagen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Planwagen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ihr Federbett wird im Planwagen verstaut.“
„Der Goldrausch war ausgebrochen und zog ganze Karawanen an Planwagen in die Ferne der Sierra Nevada und nach Alaska.“
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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