plappern
[ˈplapɐn]
The verdict
“plappern” is uncommon German (frequency #64,603 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,603
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aus der Freude am Reden ohne besonderen inhaltlichen Tiefgang fröhlich vor sich hin erzählen
Corpus desk
Index DE-plappern · plappern · German
plappern · rank #64,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,603
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH piepen
Nearest frequency peer: piepen (-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 „plappern“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Pflegestufe
Pflegestufe
35,401 corpus weight
- Phonetik
Phonetik
35,400 corpus weight
- piepen
piepen
35,399 corpus weight
- plappern
plappern
35,398 corpus weight
- plastischer
plastischer
35,396 corpus weight
- plateaus
plateaus
35,395 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „plappern“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | plappern |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈplapɐn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „plappern“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
plappern is uncommon German at frequency #64,603 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈplapɐn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for plappern, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is plappern, spelled P-L-A-P-P-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1aus der Freude am Reden ohne besonderen inhaltlichen Tiefgang fröhlich vor sich hin erzählen
- 2Falsches, Nutzloses oder Schädliches von sich geben
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how plappern appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Munter plapperte die Kleine auf dem Rücksitz des Wagens vor sich hin.
„Wie die Äffchen haben die immer geplappert und geplappert und geplappert, auf der Stube.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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