Pu
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The verdict
“Pu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,394) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,394
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - alternative Schreibweise des chinesischen Bu
Corpus desk
Index DE-pu · Pu · German
Pu · rank #21,394 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,394
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH prägte
Nearest frequency peer: prägte (-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 “Pu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Popmusik
Popmusik
78,611 corpus weight
- progressiven
progressiven
78,609 corpus weight
- prägte
prägte
78,608 corpus weight
- Pu
Pu
78,607 corpus weight
- Raiffeisenb…
Raiffeisenbank
78,606 corpus weight
- ratsam
ratsam
78,605 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pu” 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 | Pu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #21,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Pu” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Pu is neighbouring look-alikes ("PV", "PUR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #21,394 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "alternative Schreibweise des chinesischen Bu".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PV", "PUR", "puh", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Pu, spelled P-U.
Definition
- 1alternative Schreibweise des chinesischen Bu
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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- "Pu" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "PV". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #21,394 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
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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.