-fort
[-fɔʁt]
The verdict
“-fort” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ortsnamengrundwort für Furt, Flussdurchgang, Flussübergang
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -fort |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [-fɔʁt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “-fort” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for -fort is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [-fɔʁt]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ortsnamengrundwort für Furt, Flussdurchgang, Flussübergang".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for -fort, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is -fort, spelled --F-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Ortsnamengrundwort für Furt, Flussdurchgang, Flussübergang
Synonyms
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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.
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Using “-fort”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is --F-O-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.