Maat
[maːt]
The verdict
“Maat” is uncommon German (frequency #69,479 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,479
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unteroffizier bei der Marine oder der Wasserschutzpolizei
Corpus desk
Index DE-maat · Maat · German
Maat · rank #69,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,479
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH lyrischer
Nearest frequency peer: lyrischer (-1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Maat“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- loan
loan
30,526 corpus weight
- Lungau
Lungau
30,524 corpus weight
- lyrischer
lyrischer
30,523 corpus weight
- Maat
Maat
30,522 corpus weight
- Machterhalt
Machterhalt
30,521 corpus weight
- Madras
Madras
30,520 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Maat“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maat |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maːt] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #69,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Maat“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Maat is uncommon German at frequency #69,479 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unteroffizier bei der Marine oder der Wasserschutzpolizei".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Maat in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Maat, spelled M-A-A-T.
Definition
- 1Unteroffizier bei der Marine oder der Wasserschutzpolizei
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dem Befehl des Maats ist Folge zu leisten.
„Als er schon Maat auf einem Handelsschiff war, lachte man über sein Kauderwelsch;…“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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