Mahnwachen
[ˈmaːnˌvaxn̩]
The verdict
“Mahnwachen” is uncommon German (frequency #66,461 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,461
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Mahnwache
Corpus desk
Index DE-mahnwachen · Mahnwachen · German
Mahnwachen · rank #66,461 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,461
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH Macao
Nearest frequency peer: Macao (-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 “Mahnwachen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Luftzug
Luftzug
33,544 corpus weight
- Lustgarten
Lustgarten
33,543 corpus weight
- lüg
lüg
33,542 corpus weight
- Macao
Macao
33,541 corpus weight
- Mahnwachen
Mahnwachen
33,540 corpus weight
- Mandatsträg…
Mandatsträger
33,537 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mahnwachen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mahnwachen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaːnˌvaxn̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mahnwachen” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mahnwachen is uncommon German at frequency #66,461 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmaːnˌvaxn̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Mahnwachen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Mahnwachen, spelled M-A-H-N-W-A-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Mahnwache
- 2Genitiv Plural des Substantivs Mahnwache
- 3Dativ Plural des Substantivs Mahnwache
- 4Akkusativ Plural des Substantivs Mahnwache
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mahnwachen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 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.