Mahatma
[maˈhatma]
The verdict
“Mahatma” is uncommon German (frequency #60,816 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,816
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - aus dem Sanskrit stammender Ehrentitel (meist in hinduistischem oder buddhistischen Kontext) für jemanden, dem große spirituelle Kraft und Weisheit zugeschrieben werden
Corpus desk
Index DE-mahatma · Mahatma · German
Mahatma · rank #60,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,816
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH mahal
Nearest frequency peer: mahal (-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 “Mahatma”
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 “Mahatma” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mahatma |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈhatma] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mahatma” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mahatma is uncommon German at frequency #60,816 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maˈhatma]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "aus dem Sanskrit stammender Ehrentitel (meist in hinduistischem oder buddhistischen Kontext) für jemanden, dem große spirituelle Kraft und Weisheit zugeschrieben werden".
Zero misspellings are on record for Mahatma in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Mahatma, spelled M-A-H-A-T-M-A.
Definition
- 1aus dem Sanskrit stammender Ehrentitel (meist in hinduistischem oder buddhistischen Kontext) für jemanden, dem große spirituelle Kraft und Weisheit zugeschrieben werden
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mahatma", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 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.