Spott

/[ʃpɔt]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,219

in German word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Spott is aGermannoun. It means: schadenfrohes Belustigen über jemanden Pronounced [ʃpɔt]. Often confused with statt and stört.

Key facts for Spott
PropertyValue
HeadwordSpott
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʃpɔt]
Letters5
Frequency rank#15,219
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Spott in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Spott is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʃpɔt]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,219 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "schadenfrohes Belustigen über jemanden".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Spott, with forms such as "psott", "soptt", and "sppott". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "statt", "stört", "spürt", and more, 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 Spott, spelled S-P-O-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    schadenfrohes Belustigen über jemanden

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: psott,soptt,sppott,sptot,sspott

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Spott

Misspelling Variants of "Spott"

psott5soptt5sppott6sptot5sspott6
Misspelling Variants of "Spott"

Frequency rank: #15,219 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Spott"?
"Spott" is spelled S-P-O-T-T. The IPA pronunciation is [ʃpɔt].
What does "Spott" mean?
As a noun, "Spott" means: schadenfrohes Belustigen über jemanden
What words are commonly confused with "Spott"?
"Spott" is commonly confused with "statt", "stört", "spürt". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Spott"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Spott" is [ʃpɔt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Spott" come from?
"Spott" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.