mädchenhaft
[ˈmɛːtçənhaft]
The verdict
“mädchenhaft” is uncommon German (frequency #85,612 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,612
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - wie ein Mädchen, in der Art eines Mädchens
Corpus desk
Index DE-madchenhaft · mädchenhaft · German
mädchenhaft · rank #85,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,612
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mykonos
Nearest frequency peer: Mykonos (-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 „mädchenhaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Musikstile
Musikstile
14,391 corpus weight
- Mykonos
Mykonos
14,390 corpus weight
- mädchenhaft
mädchenhaft
14,389 corpus weight
- Mäuler
Mäuler
14,388 corpus weight
- möget
möget
14,387 corpus weight
- Mösen
Mösen
14,386 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „mädchenhaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mädchenhaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmɛːtçənhaft] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „mädchenhaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
mädchenhaft is uncommon German at frequency #85,612 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈmɛːtçənhaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "wie ein Mädchen, in der Art eines Mädchens".
No misspelling variants are generated for mädchenhaft in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is mädchenhaft, spelled M-Ä-D-C-H-E-N-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1wie ein Mädchen, in der Art eines Mädchens
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mädchenhaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ob sich der Leser die Effi Briest als junge, aber erwachsene Frau oder als mädchenhaft vorstellte, blieb jedem selbst überlassen.“
„Hey, durchs Monsterverdreschen halte ich meine mädchenhafte Figur.“
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).