bort
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The verdict
“bort” is uncommon German (frequency #91,402 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,402
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weg, fort
Corpus desk
Index DE-bort · bort · German
bort · rank #91,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,402
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bordsteinkante
Nearest frequency peer: Bordsteinkante (-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 „bort“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bläsern
Bläsern
8,604 corpus weight
- Bodenbearbe…
Bodenbearbeitung
8,603 corpus weight
- Bonns
Bonns
8,601 corpus weight
- Bordsteinka…
Bordsteinkante
8,600 corpus weight
- bort
bort
8,599 corpus weight
- breiteste
breiteste
8,595 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „bort“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bort |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „bort“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
bort is uncommon German at frequency #91,402 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "weg, fort".
Zero misspellings are on record for bort in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is bort, spelled B-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1weg, fort
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lennart sprang bort och mot skogen.
Bort med er!
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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