POW
The verdict
“POW” is an uncommon German word, ranked #65,583 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #65,583
- frequency rank, German
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - prisoner of war
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | POW |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,583 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “POW” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for POW is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation. Corpus data places it at rank #65,583 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "prisoner of war".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for POW, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is POW, spelled P-O-W.
Definition
- 1prisoner of war
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 “POW”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-O-W - 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.