mahlt

[maːlt]

/[maːlt]/ verb

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The verdict

“mahlt” is uncommon German (frequency #86,776 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,776
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mahlen

Corpus desk

Index DE-mahlt · mahlt · German

mahlt · rank #86,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,776
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mafiaboss

Nearest frequency peer: Mafiaboss (-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 „mahlt“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „mahlt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mahlt
PropertyValue
Headwordmahlt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[maːlt]
Letters5
Frequency rank#86,776
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „mahlt“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.mahltfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Mafiaboss“ (#86,775), „malls“ (#86,777), „Madl“ (#86,774). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „mahlt“ bei #86,776. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mahlt is uncommon German at frequency #86,776 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [maːlt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mahlt, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 mahlt, spelled M-A-H-L-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mahlen
  2. 2
    2. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mahlen
  3. 3
    2. Person Plural Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs mahlen

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mahlt"?
"mahlt" is spelled M-A-H-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is [maːlt].
What does "mahlt" mean?
As a verb, "mahlt" means: 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs mahlen
How do you pronounce "mahlt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mahlt" is [maːlt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mahlt" come from?
"mahlt" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mahlt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

malls#86,777maman#86,778medic#86,787Meers#86,790

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list