Mantra
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#33,180
in German word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
Mantra is aGermannoun. It means: in östlichen Religionen und beim Yoga verwendete, wiederholt gesprochene, spirituelle Formel, der positive Wirkungskräfte zugesprochen werden Pronounced [ˈmantʁa]. Often confused with Mara and mata.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mantra |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmantʁa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Mantra is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmantʁa]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,180 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mantra, with forms such as "amntra", "manntra", and "manrta". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Mara", "mata", "Matura", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Mantra, spelled M-A-N-T-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1in östlichen Religionen und beim Yoga verwendete, wiederholt gesprochene, spirituelle Formel, der positive Wirkungskräfte zugesprochen werden
- 2einprägsamer Spruch, um etwas zu bekräftigen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amntra,manntra,manrta,mantar,mantrra,manttra,matnra,mmantra,mnatra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Mantra
Misspelling Variants of "Mantra"
Frequency rank: #33,180 in German
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