manchmal
[ˈmançmaːl]
The verdict
“manchmal” is in the everyday core of German, ranked #556 in German word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #556
- frequency rank, German
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - zu einem oder mehreren unbestimmten Zeitpunkten („manches Mal“)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | manchmal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈmançmaːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #556 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “manchmal” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for manchmal is 8 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmançmaːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #556 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "zu einem oder mehreren unbestimmten Zeitpunkten („manches Mal“)".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for manchmal, with forms such as "amnchmal", "macnhmal", and "mancchmal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct German form is manchmal, spelled M-A-N-C-H-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1zu einem oder mehreren unbestimmten Zeitpunkten („manches Mal“)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amnchmal,macnhmal,mancchmal,manchaml,manchhmal,manchmall,manchmla,manchmmal,mancmhal,manhcmal,mannchmal,mmanchmal,mnachmal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of manchmal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “manchmal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-N-C-H-M-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmançmaːl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.