Airport
[ˈɛːɐ̯poːɐ̯t]
The verdict
“Airport” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #9,844 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,844
- frequency rank, German
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - größerer Flugplatz, auf dem regelmäßig (kommerzieller) Flugverkehr stattfindet
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Airport |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛːɐ̯poːɐ̯t] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Airport” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Airport is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈɛːɐ̯poːɐ̯t]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,844 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "größerer Flugplatz, auf dem regelmäßig (kommerzieller) Flugverkehr stattfindet".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Airport, with forms such as "aiprort", "airoprt", and "airporrt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Airport, spelled A-I-R-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1größerer Flugplatz, auf dem regelmäßig (kommerzieller) Flugverkehr stattfindet
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aiprort,airoprt,airporrt,airportt,airpotr,airpport,airprot,airrport,ariport,iarport
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Airport - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “Airport”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-I-R-P-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈɛːɐ̯poːɐ̯t] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.