Po
[poː]
The verdict
“Po” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,093) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,093
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesäß (menschlicher Körperteil, auf dem gesessen wird)
Corpus desk
Index DE-po · Po · German
Po · rank #7,093 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,093
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Phasen
Nearest frequency peer: Phasen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Po“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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organisierte
92,911 corpus weight
- people
people
92,910 corpus weight
- Phasen
Phasen
92,909 corpus weight
- Po
Po
92,908 corpus weight
- Politikern
Politikern
92,907 corpus weight
- Potenzial
Potenzial
92,906 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Po“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Po |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [poː] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Po“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Po is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [poː]. Frequency #7,093 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Gesäß (menschlicher Körperteil, auf dem gesessen wird)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Po, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "PV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Po, spelled P-O.
Definition
- 1Gesäß (menschlicher Körperteil, auf dem gesessen wird)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Po appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Beim Glatteis gestern bin ich ausgerutscht und auf den Po gefallen.
„Diesen Po musste man haben, den oder keinen.“
Synonyms
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.