Mantua
[ˈmantua]
The verdict
“Mantua” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #45,443 in German word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #45,443
- frequency rank, German
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in der italienischen Region Lombardei gelegene Mittelstadt
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mantua |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈmantua] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mantua” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Mantua is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmantua]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,443 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "in der italienischen Region Lombardei gelegene Mittelstadt".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mantua, with forms such as "amntua", "manntua", and "mantau". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "manu", "mata", "Matura", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Mantua, spelled M-A-N-T-U-A.
Definition
- 1in der italienischen Region Lombardei gelegene Mittelstadt
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amntua,manntua,mantau,manttua,manuta,matnua,mmantua,mnatua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mantua - 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 “Mantua”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-N-T-U-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmantua] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “manu” - see the side-by-side comparison. Mantua vs manu
- 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.