Prosa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,725
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Prosa is aGermannoun. It means: literarisches Genre, das sich nicht einer durch Metrum, Reim, Rhythmus, Versmaß gebundenen Sprache bedient Pronounced [ˈpʁoːza]. Often confused with psa and prost.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Prosa |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpʁoːza] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Prosa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpʁoːza]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,725 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Prosa, with forms such as "porsa", "pprosa", and "proas". 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, "psa", "prost", "Proxy", 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 Prosa, spelled P-R-O-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1literarisches Genre, das sich nicht einer durch Metrum, Reim, Rhythmus, Versmaß gebundenen Sprache bedient
- 2Texte in einer Sprachform wie [1]
- 3etwas, das sich als gewöhnlich erweist
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porsa,pprosa,proas,prossa,prrosa,prsoa,rposa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Prosa
Misspelling Variants of "Prosa"
Frequency rank: #15,725 in German
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