pm
The verdict
“pm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,609) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,609
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Einheitensymbol für Pikometer. 1 pm = 10⁻¹² m.
Corpus desk
Index DE-pm · pm · German
pm · rank #8,609 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,609
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Periode
Nearest frequency peer: Periode (-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 “pm”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ordentliche
ordentliche
91,395 corpus weight
- our
our
91,394 corpus weight
- Periode
Periode
91,393 corpus weight
- pm
pm
91,392 corpus weight
- Porträt
Porträt
91,391 corpus weight
- prime
prime
91,390 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pm” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pm |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,609 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “pm” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pm is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #8,609 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Einheitensymbol für Pikometer. 1 pm = 10⁻¹² m.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pm in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "Po", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is pm, spelled P-M.
Definition
- 1Einheitensymbol für Pikometer. 1 pm = 10⁻¹² m.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1 nm = 1.000 pm.
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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- "pm" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "PS". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #8,609 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.