Sportler
[ˈʃpɔʁtlɐ]
The verdict
“Sportler” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #5,026 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,026
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Person, die regelmäßig eine oder mehrere Sportarten betreibt
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 | Sportler |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃpɔʁtlɐ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,026 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Sportler” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Sportler is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈʃpɔʁtlɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,026 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Person, die regelmäßig eine oder mehrere Sportarten betreibt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Sportler, with forms such as "psortler", "soprtler", and "sporlter". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Sportlern", "Sportlerin", "spoiler", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Sportler, spelled S-P-O-R-T-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Person, die regelmäßig eine oder mehrere Sportarten betreibt
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psortler,soprtler,sporlter,sporrtler,sportelr,sportlerr,sportller,sportlre,sporttler,spotrler,spportler,sprotler,ssportler
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Sportler - 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 “Sportler”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is S-P-O-R-T-L-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈʃpɔʁtlɐ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Sportlern” - see the side-by-side comparison. Sportler vs Sportlern
- 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.