Sporn
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#64,726
in German word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Sporn is aGermannoun. It means: Stachel am Reitstiefel zum Antreiben des Reittiers Pronounced [ʃpɔʁn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sporn |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃpɔʁn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sporn is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃpɔʁn]. Corpus data places it at rank #64,726 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for Sporn in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Sporn, spelled S-P-O-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Stachel am Reitstiefel zum Antreiben des Reittiers
- 2hornförmige Ausstülpung bei manchen Blütenblättern
- 3Gebilde aus Horn bei Vögeln, das bei Kämpfen eingesetzt wird (fachsprachlich nur Plural 2, umgangssprachlich auch Plural 1)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #64,726 in German
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