Magdeburg

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The German entry for Magdeburg is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmakdəˌbʊʁk]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,538 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine Stadt in Deutschland, die Hauptstadt des Bundeslandes Sachsen-Anhalt".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for Magdeburg, with forms such as "amgdeburg", "madgeburg", and "magdbeurg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Magdeburger", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Magdeburg, spelled M-A-G-D-E-B-U-R-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.