progress
[ˈpɹəʊɡɹɛs]
The verdict
“progress” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #29,741. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,741
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fortschritt, Fortgang, Entwicklung
Corpus desk
Index DE-progress · progress · German
progress · rank #29,741 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,741
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Proportionen
Nearest frequency peer: Proportionen (+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 „progress“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- plump
plump
70,263 corpus weight
- progress
progress
70,260 corpus weight
- Proportionen
Proportionen
70,259 corpus weight
- Protestanti…
Protestantismus
70,258 corpus weight
- PVC
PVC
70,257 corpus weight
- rassistisch…
rassistischer
70,256 corpus weight
What this shows „progress“ 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 | progress |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpɹəʊɡɹɛs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „progress“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around progress (IPA [ˈpɹəʊɡɹɛs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,741 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for progress, with forms such as "porgress", "pprogress", and "prgoress". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Prozess", "progressiv", "process", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 progress, spelled P-R-O-G-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Fortschritt, Fortgang, Entwicklung
- 2Bewegung auf ein Ziel hin, Vorwärtskommen, Vorankommen, Reise
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how progress appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This nation is making progress towards true and genuine equality of rights.
Nothing could stop his progress.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porgress
- pprogress
- prgoress
- progerss
- proggress
- progres
- progreß
- progrress
- progrses
- prorgess
- prrogress
- rpogress
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of progress - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "progress", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).