Porträt
[pɔʁˈtʁɛː]
The verdict
“Porträt” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #8,610. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,610
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Darstellung einer Person, meist in Form eines Gemäldes
Corpus desk
Index DE-portrat · Porträt · German
Porträt · rank #8,610 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,610
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH pm
Nearest frequency peer: pm (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Porträt“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- our
our
91,394 corpus weight
- Periode
Periode
91,393 corpus weight
- pm
pm
91,392 corpus weight
- Porträt
Porträt
91,391 corpus weight
- prime
prime
91,390 corpus weight
- Provinzen
Provinzen
91,389 corpus weight
What this shows „Porträt“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Porträt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɔʁˈtʁɛː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,610 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Porträt“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Porträt (IPA [pɔʁˈtʁɛː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,610 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Porträt, with forms such as "oprträt", "porrträt", and "porrtät". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Porträts", "porta", "Portal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Porträt, spelled P-O-R-T-R-Ä-T.
Definition
- 1eine Darstellung einer Person, meist in Form eines Gemäldes
- 2eine schriftliche Beschreibung einer Person beziehungsweise eines Gegenstandes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Porträt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Absicht eines Porträts ist, das Wesen, beziehungsweise die Persönlichkeit der porträtierten Person zum Ausdruck zu bringen.“ - Wikipedia.de
„Das Vorhandensein des Porträts störte mich mehr als das Vorhandensein des Porträtierten.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprträt
- porrträt
- porrtät
- portrrät
- portrtä
- porträtt
- portträt
- portärt
- potrrät
- pporträt
- proträt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Porträt - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Porträt", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).