deportment
/dɪˈpɔːtmənt/
"deportment" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deportment” is an uncommon English word, ranked #85,166 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #85,166
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | deportment |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /dɪˈpɔːtmənt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “deportment” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for deportment is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /dɪˈpɔːtmənt/. Corpus data places it at rank #85,166 in overall English 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.
No generated misspelling entries exist for deportment in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment. The correct English form is deportment, spelled D-E-P-O-R-T-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
- 2Conduct; public behavior.
- 3Apparent level of schooling or training.
- 4Self-discipline.
Etymology
From Late Middle French deportement (French déportement). By surface analysis, deport + -ment.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “deportment”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-E-P-O-R-T-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /dɪˈpɔːtmənt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.