Meier
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,789
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Meier is aGermannoun. It means: Beamter eines adligen oder geistlichen Grundherrn, der die Verwaltung und Bewirtschaftung des Haupthofes (Meierhof) übernahm, später Pächter des größten Hofs Pronounced [ˈmaɪ̯ɐ]. It ranks #7,789 in German word frequency. Often confused with mir and mer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meier |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɪ̯ɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Meier is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɪ̯ɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,789 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Meier, with forms such as "emier", "meeir", and "meierr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mir", "mer", "mein", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Meier, spelled M-E-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Beamter eines adligen oder geistlichen Grundherrn, der die Verwaltung und Bewirtschaftung des Haupthofes (Meierhof) übernahm, später Pächter des größten Hofs
- 2Vertreter der Pflanzengattung Asperula aus der Familie der Rötegewächse (früher auch für andere Pflanzenarten, wie Vogelmiere und Ackergauchheil)
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emier,meeir,meierr,meire,mieer,mmeier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Meier
Misspelling Variants of "Meier"
Frequency rank: #7,789 in German
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