Sportarten
The verdict
“Sportarten” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #10,568 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #10,568
- frequency rank, German
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Sportart
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sportarten |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɔʁtˌʔaːɐ̯tn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,568 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sportarten” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sportarten is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpɔʁtˌʔaːɐ̯tn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,568 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sportarten, with forms such as "psortarten", "soprtarten", and "sporatrten". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Sportart", 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 Sportarten, spelled S-P-O-R-T-A-R-T-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Sportart
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Sportart
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Sportart
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Sportart
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psortarten,soprtarten,sporatrten,sporrtarten,sportaretn,sportarrten,sportartenn,sportartne,sportartten,sportatren,sportraten,sporttarten,spotrarten,spportarten,sprotarten,ssportarten
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sportarten - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Sportarten"
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 “Sportarten”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-P-O-R-T-A-R-T-E-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃpɔʁtˌʔaːɐ̯tn̩] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Sportart” - see the side-by-side comparison. Sportarten vs Sportart
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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