Porträtist
[pɔʁtʁɛˈtɪst]
The verdict
“Porträtist” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person, die Porträts anfertigt
Corpus desk
Index DE-portratist · Porträtist · German
Porträtist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Porträtist |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɔʁtʁɛˈtɪst] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Porträtist“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Porträtist is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [pɔʁtʁɛˈtɪst]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Person, die Porträts anfertigt".
Zero misspellings are on record for Porträtist in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Porträtist, spelled P-O-R-T-R-Ä-T-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Person, die Porträts anfertigt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Porträtist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Porträtist hatte das offenbar selbst empfunden und das Bild nicht wirklich zu Ende gemalt.“
„Im Übrigen war er, besonders in den frühen, ab 1936 erscheinenden Bänden seines Werkes, ein großer, um Redlichkeit bemühter Porträtist nicht nur seiner Helden, sondern auch der Gegner seiner Helden.“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.