prim
[pʁiːm]
The verdict
“prim” is an uncommon German word, ranked #59,974 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #59,974
- frequency rank, German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - von Zahlen, genau zwei ganzzahlige Teiler besitzend (diese sind dann 1 und die Zahl selbst); eine Primzahl seiend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prim |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pʁiːm] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prim” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for prim is 4 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʁiːm]. Corpus data places it at rank #59,974 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "von Zahlen, genau zwei ganzzahlige Teiler besitzend (diese sind dann 1 und die Zahl selbst); eine Primzahl seiend".
Zero misspellings are on record for prim in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 prim, spelled P-R-I-M.
Definition
- 1von Zahlen, genau zwei ganzzahlige Teiler besitzend (diese sind dann 1 und die Zahl selbst); eine Primzahl seiend
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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Using “prim”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-R-I-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pʁiːm] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.