porter
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The verdict
“porter” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #18,025. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,025
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Gepäckträger: Person, die Gepäck oder ähnliche Gegenstände trägt
Corpus desk
Index DE-porter · porter · German
porter · rank #18,025 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH plötzliche
Nearest frequency peer: plötzliche (-1 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “porter”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pianist
Pianist
81,979 corpus weight
- Picknick
Picknick
81,978 corpus weight
- plötzliche
plötzliche
81,977 corpus weight
- porter
porter
81,976 corpus weight
- Praktika
Praktika
81,975 corpus weight
- Preisgeld
Preisgeld
81,974 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “porter” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porter |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “porter” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around porter (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,025 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for porter, with forms such as "oprter", "poretr", and "porrter". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "power", "Porto", "poste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is porter, spelled P-O-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1der Gepäckträger: Person, die Gepäck oder ähnliche Gegenstände trägt
- 2der Pförtner
- 3der Portier
- 4der Türhüter, der Ostiarier, der Ostiarius
- 5in der Bowlingbranche eine angestellte Person, die Tische abräumt und säubert sowie die Bowlingkugeln wegräumt
- 6starkes, dunkles, dem Stout ähnliches Bier, das ursprünglich von Portieren bevorzugt wurde
- 7in Irland ein anderer Name für ein Stout
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprter
- poretr
- porrter
- porterr
- portre
- portter
- potrer
- pporter
- proter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of porter - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "porter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "porter". Here's where to go from here.
- "porter" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "power". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #18,025 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.