mal vor

/[ˌmaːl ˈfoːɐ̯]/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mal vor is aGermanverb. It means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vormalen Pronounced [ˌmaːl ˈfoːɐ̯].

Key facts for mal vor
PropertyValue
Headwordmal vor
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ˌmaːl ˈfoːɐ̯]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mal vor is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for mal vor is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˌmaːl ˈfoːɐ̯]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vormalen".

No misspelling variants are generated for mal vor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 mal vor, spelled M-A-L- -V-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vormalen

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mal vor"?
"mal vor" is spelled M-A-L- -V-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˌmaːl ˈfoːɐ̯].
What does "mal vor" mean?
As a verb, "mal vor" means: 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs vormalen
How do you pronounce "mal vor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mal vor" is [ˌmaːl ˈfoːɐ̯]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mal vor" come from?
"mal vor" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our German index:

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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.