Puritaner
[puʁiˈtaːnɐ]
The verdict
“Puritaner” is uncommon German (frequency #90,757 among 49,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,757
- frequency rank, German
- 49,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Anhänger des Puritanismus
Corpus desk
Index DE-puritaner · Puritaner · German
Puritaner · rank #90,757 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,757
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 49,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Pura
Nearest frequency peer: Pura (-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 “Puritaner”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pulsar
Pulsar
9,246 corpus weight
- Pura
Pura
9,245 corpus weight
- Puritaner
Puritaner
9,244 corpus weight
- Quadratmeil…
Quadratmeilen
9,242 corpus weight
- Quads
Quads
9,241 corpus weight
- Quartette
Quartette
9,240 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Puritaner” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Puritaner |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [puʁiˈtaːnɐ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Puritaner” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Puritaner is uncommon German at frequency #90,757 among 49,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [puʁiˈtaːnɐ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Anhänger des Puritanismus".
Zero misspellings are on record for Puritaner in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Puritaner, spelled P-U-R-I-T-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Anhänger des Puritanismus
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Puritaner", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.