porter

/[…]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#18,025

in German word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

porter is aGermannoun. It means: der Gepäckträger: Person, die Gepäck oder ähnliche Gegenstände trägt Pronounced […]. Often confused with power and Porto.

Key facts for porter
PropertyValue
Headwordporter
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#18,025
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of porter in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for porter is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #18,025 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for porter, with forms such as "oprter", "poretr", and "porrter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "power", "Porto", "poste", and more, 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 porter, spelled P-O-R-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    der Gepäckträger: Person, die Gepäck oder ähnliche Gegenstände trägt
  2. 2
    der Pförtner
  3. 3
    der Portier
  4. 4
    der Türhüter, der Ostiarier, der Ostiarius
  5. 5
    in der Bowlingbranche eine angestellte Person, die Tische abräumt und säubert sowie die Bowlingkugeln wegräumt
  6. 6
    starkes, dunkles, dem Stout ähnliches Bier, das ursprünglich von Portieren bevorzugt wurde
  7. 7
    in Irland ein anderer Name für ein Stout

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oprter,poretr,porrter,porterr,portre,portter,potrer,pporter,proter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porter

Misspelling Variants of "porter"

oprter6poretr6porrter7porterr7portre6portter7potrer6pporter7
Misspelling Variants of "porter"

Frequency rank: #18,025 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "porter"?
"porter" is spelled P-O-R-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "porter" mean?
As a noun, "porter" means: der Gepäckträger: Person, die Gepäck oder ähnliche Gegenstände trägt
What words are commonly confused with "porter"?
"porter" is commonly confused with "power", "Porto", "poste". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "porter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "porter" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "porter" come from?
"porter" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.