pros
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,523
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pros is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs prosit Pronounced [prɔs]. Often confused with PS and Puls.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pros |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [prɔs] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,523 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for pros is 4 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [prɔs]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,523 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs prosit".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pros, with forms such as "pors", "ppros", and "pross". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Puls", "prüf", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is pros, spelled P-R-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs prosit
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pors,ppros,pross,prros,prso,rpos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pros
Misspelling Variants of "pros"
Frequency rank: #45,523 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our German index: