passport
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The verdict
“passport” is uncommon German (frequency #65,561 among 3,409 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,561
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reisepass, Pass
Corpus desk
Index DE-passport · passport · German
passport · rank #65,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH parieren
Nearest frequency peer: parieren (-2 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 „passport“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Packers
Packers
34,444 corpus weight
- paranoide
paranoide
34,443 corpus weight
- parieren
parieren
34,442 corpus weight
- passport
passport
34,440 corpus weight
- patentiert
patentiert
34,438 corpus weight
- Perlenkette
Perlenkette
34,436 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „passport“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passport |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „passport“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
passport is uncommon German at frequency #65,561 among 3,409 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
passport has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 passport, spelled P-A-S-S-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Reisepass, Pass
- 2Schlüssel/ Zugangsmöglichkeit zu etwas
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).