Meerjungfrau

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Meerjungfrau is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmeːɐ̯jʊŋˌfʁaʊ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,716 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Märchenfigur, Sagengestalt, Fabelwesen, deren obere Hälfte eine Frau und deren untere Hälfte einen Fisch verkörpert und welche überwiegend im Meer lebt".

Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Meerjungfrau, with forms such as "emerjungfrau", "meejrungfrau", and "meerjjungfrau". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Meerjungfrau, spelled M-E-E-R-J-U-N-G-F-R-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.