-ford
[-fɔʁt]
The verdict
“-ford” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ortsnamengrundwort für Furt, Flussdurchgang, Flussübergang
Corpus desk
Index DE-ford · -ford · German
-ford · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ford |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [-fɔʁt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „-ford“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
-ford is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [-fɔʁt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ortsnamengrundwort für Furt, Flussdurchgang, Flussübergang".
-ford has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is -ford, spelled --F-O-R-D.
Definition
- 1Ortsnamengrundwort für Furt, Flussdurchgang, Flussübergang
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.