Phosphat
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,946
in German word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
Phosphat is aGermannoun. It means: Salz oder Ester der Phosphorsäure Pronounced [fɔsˈfaːt]. Often confused with Phosphor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Phosphat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [fɔsˈfaːt] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Phosphat is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [fɔsˈfaːt]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,946 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Salz oder Ester der Phosphorsäure".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Phosphat, with forms such as "hposphat", "phhosphat", and "phopshat". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Phosphor", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Phosphat, spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Salz oder Ester der Phosphorsäure
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hposphat,phhosphat,phopshat,phoshpat,phospaht,phosphatt,phosphhat,phosphta,phospphat,phossphat,phsophat,pohsphat,pphosphat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Phosphat
Misspelling Variants of "Phosphat"
Frequency rank: #38,946 in German
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