Sportfreund
[ˈʃpɔʁtˌfʁɔɪ̯nt]
The verdict
“Sportfreund” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Anhänger, Liebhaber des Sports (selbst aktiv oder als Zuschauer)
Corpus desk
Index DE-sportfreund · Sportfreund · German
Sportfreund · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Sportfreund |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɔʁtˌfʁɔɪ̯nt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Sportfreund“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Sportfreund is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃpɔʁtˌfʁɔɪ̯nt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Sportfreund, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Sportfreund, spelled S-P-O-R-T-F-R-E-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Anhänger, Liebhaber des Sports (selbst aktiv oder als Zuschauer)
- 2Mitglied im gleichen Sportklub; Freund, mit dem jemand Sport betreibt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Sportfreund appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Privat ist er noch immer ein Sportfreund, denn auch wenn er kein Sportreporter mehr ist, bleibt er bis heute dem Fußball und vor allem seinem Heimatverein Dynamo Dresden treu.“
Meine Sportfreunde waren sauer, weil ich das Training geschwänzt hatte.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.