mediterran

[meditɛˈʁaːn]

/[meditɛˈʁaːn]/ adj

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The verdict

“mediterran” is uncommon German (frequency #84,293 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,293
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dem Raum des Mittelmeeres eigen, zugehörig, ihn betreffend

Corpus desk

Index DE-mediterran · mediterran · German

mediterran · rank #84,293 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,293
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH Meeresfrüchten

Nearest frequency peer: Meeresfrüchten (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „mediterran“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „mediterran“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mediterran
PropertyValue
Headwordmediterran
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[meditɛˈʁaːn]
Letters10
Frequency rank#84,293
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „mediterran“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.mediterranfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Meeresfrüchten“ (#84,294), „Megaphon“ (#84,295), „Maximen“ (#84,290). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „mediterran“ bei #84,293. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mediterran is uncommon German at frequency #84,293 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [meditɛˈʁaːn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "dem Raum des Mittelmeeres eigen, zugehörig, ihn betreffend".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mediterran, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is mediterran, spelled M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    dem Raum des Mittelmeeres eigen, zugehörig, ihn betreffend

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mediterran appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Das Restaurant bietet mediterrane Küche an.
  2. An der Côte d’Azur herrscht ein angenehmes mediterranes Klima.

This word in other languages

Mediterranean(English)mediterráneo(Español)méditerranéen(Français)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mediterran"?
"mediterran" is spelled M-E-D-I-T-E-R-R-A-N. The IPA pronunciation is [meditɛˈʁaːn].
What does "mediterran" mean?
As an adjective, "mediterran" means: dem Raum des Mittelmeeres eigen, zugehörig, ihn betreffend
How do you pronounce "mediterran"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mediterran" is [meditɛˈʁaːn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mediterran" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mediterran", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list