Pro
The verdict
“Pro” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #414) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #414
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Prolin, eine Aminosäure
Corpus desk
Index DE-pro · Pro · German
Pro · rank #414 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #414
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH München
Nearest frequency peer: München (-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 “Pro”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mag
mag
99,590 corpus weight
- Musik
Musik
99,589 corpus weight
- München
München
99,588 corpus weight
- Pro
Pro
99,587 corpus weight
- Wasser
Wasser
99,586 corpus weight
- alten
alten
99,585 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Pro” 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 | Pro |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pro” sits in German frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Pro is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "PV", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #414 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Prolin, eine Aminosäure".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pro, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "PV", "Pt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Pro, spelled P-R-O.
Definition
- 1Prolin, eine Aminosäure
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Kollagen und Elastin finden sich hohe Konzentrationen von Prolin (abgekürzt Pro).
„Die Aminosäure Prolin (Abkürzungen Pro im Dreibuchstabencode und P im Einbuchstabencode) ist eine proteinogene Aminosäure (wird zur Bildung von Proteinen herangezogen) mit einer ringförmigen Struktur. Sie zählt zu den heterozyklischen Aminosäuren.“
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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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.