Mediathek
[mediaˈteːk]
The verdict
“Mediathek” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,632
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ort oder Internetportal, wo Medien verschiedener Arten genutzt, entliehen oder gekauft werden können
Corpus desk
Index DE-mediathek · Mediathek · German
Mediathek · rank #14,632 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,632
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mangelnder
Nearest frequency peer: mangelnder (-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 “Mediathek”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Lot
Lot
85,373 corpus weight
- Lyon
Lyon
85,371 corpus weight
- mangelnder
mangelnder
85,370 corpus weight
- Mediathek
Mediathek
85,369 corpus weight
- Mh
Mh
85,367 corpus weight
- Missstände
Missstände
85,366 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mediathek” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mediathek |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mediaˈteːk] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Mediathek” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Mediathek (IPA [mediaˈteːk]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,632 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ort oder Internetportal, wo Medien verschiedener Arten genutzt, entliehen oder gekauft werden können".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mediathek, with forms such as "emdiathek", "mdeiathek", and "medaithek". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Mediathek, spelled M-E-D-I-A-T-H-E-K.
Definition
- 1Ort oder Internetportal, wo Medien verschiedener Arten genutzt, entliehen oder gekauft werden können
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mediathek appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die ARD bringe zudem wichtige Programmschätze in die Mediathek ein.“
„Besonders an der geplanten Mediathek auf einer Brücke über die Nidda entzünden sich die Emotionen.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdiathek
- mdeiathek
- medaithek
- meddiathek
- mediahtek
- mediatehk
- mediathekk
- mediathhek
- mediathke
- mediatthek
- meditahek
- meidathek
- mmediathek
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mediathek - 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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mediathek", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- Usage frequency rank #14,632 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.