Prostituierte
[pʁɔstituˈiːɐ̯tə]
The verdict
“Prostituierte” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #12,565 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,565
- frequency rank, German
- 13
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - weibliche Person, die für ein Entgelt sexuelle Handlungen als Dienstleistung anbietet und ausübt
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 | Prostituierte |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pʁɔstituˈiːɐ̯tə] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #12,565 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Prostituierte” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Prostituierte is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pʁɔstituˈiːɐ̯tə]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,565 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "weibliche Person, die für ein Entgelt sexuelle Handlungen als Dienstleistung anbietet und ausübt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for Prostituierte, with forms such as "porstituierte", "pprostituierte", and "prosittuierte". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "prostituierten", 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 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 Prostituierte, spelled P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-I-E-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1weibliche Person, die für ein Entgelt sexuelle Handlungen als Dienstleistung anbietet und ausübt
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: porstituierte,pprostituierte,prosittuierte,prosstituierte,prostitiuerte,prostittuierte,prostitueirte,prostituieret,prostituierrte,prostituiertte,prostituietre,prostituirete,prostiutierte,prosttituierte,prosttiuierte,protsituierte,prrostituierte,prsotituierte,rpostituierte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Prostituierte - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “Prostituierte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-R-O-S-T-I-T-U-I-E-R-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pʁɔstituˈiːɐ̯tə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “prostituierten” - see the side-by-side comparison. Prostituierte vs prostituierten
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.