pfennig
French, noun\pfe.niɡ\
pfennig is spelled P-F-E-N-N-I-G (7 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pfennig is a French masculine noun meaning “pfennig” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Subdivision du Deutsche Mark et des monnaies allemandes antérieures, qui a pour symbole ₰ (Unicode U+20B0)…”.
What does pfennig mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepfennig
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Subdivision du Deutsche Mark et des monnaies allemandes antérieures, qui a pour symbole ₰ (Unicode U+20B0), et qui correspondait à l’origine au denier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pfennig
- pfennigs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pfennig?
- \pfe.niɡ\
- [pfe.niɡ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pfennig in French?
pfennig appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).