mahal
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The verdict
“mahal” is uncommon German (frequency #60,815 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,815
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - teuer
Corpus desk
Index DE-mahal · mahal · German
mahal · rank #60,815 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,815
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH Mahatma
Nearest frequency peer: Mahatma (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mahal”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lukratives
lukratives
39,189 corpus weight
- Längsachse
Längsachse
39,188 corpus weight
- mahal
mahal
39,186 corpus weight
- Mahatma
Mahatma
39,185 corpus weight
- Mailserver
Mailserver
39,183 corpus weight
- mainstreami…
mainstreaming
39,182 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mahal” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #60,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mahal” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mahal is uncommon German at frequency #60,815 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "teuer".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mahal, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is mahal, spelled M-A-H-A-L.
Definition
- 1teuer
Antonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.