pun
[pʌn]
The verdict
“pun” is uncommon German (frequency #61,849 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,849
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wortspiel, das auf dem ähnlichen Klang zweier Wörter beruht
Corpus desk
Index DE-pun · pun · German
pun · rank #61,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,849
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH präparierten
Nearest frequency peer: präparierten (-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 „pun“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Prozesskost…
Prozesskosten
38,155 corpus weight
- Prozesskost…
Prozesskostenhilfe
38,154 corpus weight
- präparierten
präparierten
38,153 corpus weight
- pun
pun
38,152 corpus weight
- punto
punto
38,151 corpus weight
- Querung
Querung
38,150 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „pun“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pun |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʌn] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „pun“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
pun is uncommon German at frequency #61,849 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [pʌn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Wortspiel, das auf dem ähnlichen Klang zweier Wörter beruht".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pun, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is pun, spelled P-U-N.
Definition
- 1Wortspiel, das auf dem ähnlichen Klang zweier Wörter beruht
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„I think our puns have angered the gods.“
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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