pilsner
/ˈpɪlznə/
"pilsner" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pilsner” is uncommon English (frequency #58,279 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,279
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pale, light lager beer.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pilsner · pilsner · English
pilsner · rank #58,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,279
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Philippi
Nearest frequency peer: Philippi (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “pilsner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Pernambuco
Pernambuco
41,724 corpus weight
- Philippi
Philippi
41,723 corpus weight
- pilsner
pilsner
41,722 corpus weight
- pitta
pitta
41,721 corpus weight
- plait
plait
41,720 corpus weight
- Plantagenet
Plantagenet
41,719 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pilsner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilsner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɪlznə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pilsner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pilsner is uncommon English at frequency #58,279 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɪlznə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pale, light lager beer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pilsner, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Pilsner, from Pilsen, the Bohemian city where the beer was first developed. The correct English form is pilsner, spelled P-I-L-S-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1A pale, light lager beer.
Etymology
From German Pilsner, from Pilsen, the Bohemian city where the beer was first developed.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).