deportment
/dɪˈpɔːtmənt/
"deportment" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“deportment” is uncommon English (frequency #85,166 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,166
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
Corpus desk
Index EN-deportment · deportment · English
deportment · rank #85,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,166
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH derringer
Nearest frequency peer: derringer (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “deportment”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- declarer
declarer
14,842 corpus weight
- deffo
deffo
14,840 corpus weight
- Deimos
Deimos
14,839 corpus weight
- deportment
deportment
14,835 corpus weight
- derringer
derringer
14,834 corpus weight
- Diab
Diab
14,830 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “deportment” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “deportment” in English
Rare enough to double-check
deportment is uncommon English at frequency #85,166 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /dɪˈpɔːtmənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how deportment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
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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