märkisch
[ˈmɛʁkɪʃ]
The verdict
“märkisch” is uncommon German (frequency #57,263 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,263
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sich auf die Mark Brandenburg beziehend, von dort kommend, zur Mark Brandenburg gehörig
Corpus desk
Index DE-markisch · märkisch · German
märkisch · rank #57,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,263
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH mährischen
Nearest frequency peer: mährischen (-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 “märkisch”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mutprobe
Mutprobe
42,742 corpus weight
- myth
myth
42,740 corpus weight
- mährischen
mährischen
42,739 corpus weight
- märkisch
märkisch
42,738 corpus weight
- Nachbildung…
Nachbildungen
42,736 corpus weight
- nachgebildet
nachgebildet
42,735 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “märkisch” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | märkisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmɛʁkɪʃ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “märkisch” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
märkisch is uncommon German at frequency #57,263 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈmɛʁkɪʃ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sich auf die Mark Brandenburg beziehend, von dort kommend, zur Mark Brandenburg gehörig".
märkisch doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is märkisch, spelled M-Ä-R-K-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1sich auf die Mark Brandenburg beziehend, von dort kommend, zur Mark Brandenburg gehörig
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "märkisch", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 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.