Strafporto
[ˈʃtʁaːfˌpɔʁto]
The verdict
“Strafporto” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gebühr, die vom Empfänger gezahlt werden muss, wenn Postgut nicht ausreichend frankiert wurde
Corpus desk
Index DE-strafporto · Strafporto · German
Strafporto · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | Strafporto |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʃtʁaːfˌpɔʁto] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Strafporto“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Strafporto is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈʃtʁaːfˌpɔʁto]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gebühr, die vom Empfänger gezahlt werden muss, wenn Postgut nicht ausreichend frankiert wurde".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Strafporto, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Strafporto, spelled S-T-R-A-F-P-O-R-T-O.
Definition
- 1Gebühr, die vom Empfänger gezahlt werden muss, wenn Postgut nicht ausreichend frankiert wurde
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Strafporto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Üblich war es bei der Reichspost jedoch, dass bei fehlendem Eilporto das 1,5-fache des fehlenden Portos als Nachgebühr oder genauer als Strafporto erhoben wurde.“
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.