Mattias
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The verdict
“Mattias” is uncommon German (frequency #60,825 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,825
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - schwedischer männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-mattias · Mattias · German
Mattias · rank #60,825 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,825
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH meadows
Nearest frequency peer: meadows (+2 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 “Mattias”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mainstreami…
mainstreaming
39,182 corpus weight
- Mainstreams
Mainstreams
39,181 corpus weight
- manus
manus
39,180 corpus weight
- markanter
markanter
39,179 corpus weight
- Mattias
Mattias
39,176 corpus weight
- meadows
meadows
39,174 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mattias” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mattias |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mattias” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mattias is uncommon German at frequency #60,825 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schwedischer männlicher Vorname".
Mattias has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Mattias, spelled M-A-T-T-I-A-S.
Definition
- 1schwedischer männlicher Vorname
This word in other languages
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mattias", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 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.