prayer
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The verdict
“prayer” is uncommon German (frequency #68,575 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,575
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gebet
Corpus desk
Index DE-prayer · prayer · German
prayer · rank #68,575 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,575
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH prawda
Nearest frequency peer: prawda (-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 „prayer“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Prachtstück
Prachtstück
31,429 corpus weight
- praktiziere…
praktizierenden
31,428 corpus weight
- prawda
prawda
31,427 corpus weight
- prayer
prayer
31,426 corpus weight
- preisgünsti…
preisgünstige
31,425 corpus weight
- Preisverfall
Preisverfall
31,424 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „prayer“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prayer |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,575 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „prayer“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
prayer is uncommon German at frequency #68,575 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gebet".
prayer has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists 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 prayer, spelled P-R-A-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Gebet
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how prayer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Please Lord, hear my prayer!
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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