Sport
[ʃpɔʁt]
The verdict
“Sport” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #942. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #942
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - intensive körperliche und/oder geistige Betätigung mit Leistungsanspruch
Corpus desk
Index DE-sport · Sport · German
Sport · rank #942 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #942
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Punkte
Nearest frequency peer: Punkte (-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 „Sport“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Projekt
Projekt
99,062 corpus weight
- Präsident
Präsident
99,061 corpus weight
- Punkte
Punkte
99,060 corpus weight
- Sport
Sport
99,059 corpus weight
- Tat
Tat
99,058 corpus weight
- Zimmer
Zimmer
99,057 corpus weight
What this shows „Sport“ 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 | Sport |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʃpɔʁt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Sport“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Sport (IPA [ʃpɔʁt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #942 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sport, with forms such as "psort", "soprt", and "sporrt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Spur", "spot", "Start", and more, 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Sport, spelled S-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1intensive körperliche und/oder geistige Betätigung mit Leistungsanspruch
- 2die kulturelle Handlung von Menschen, sich körperlich und geistig in Wettkämpfen zu messen
- 3Unterrichtsfach an Schulen, in welchem sich die Schüler sportlich beteiligen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sport appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viel Sport fördert die Gesundheit.
„So entziehen sich ausgereifte Sports wie das Bungeespringen, Reiten, Tauchen oder Drachenfliegen dieser Subsumierung als Risikosport, sobald objektivierende Beweisforderungen und wissenschaftliche Maßstäbe an die Zuordnung gelegt werden.“
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psort
- soprt
- sporrt
- sportt
- spotr
- spport
- sprot
- ssport
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sport - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Sport", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).