Meile
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,698
in German word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Meile is aGermannoun. It means: Längenmaß in der Größenordnung von 1 bis 11 Kilometer, früher in Deutschland und Österreich etwa 7,5 Kilometer entsprechend, noch heute offiziell im Vereinigten Königreich und in den Vereinigten St... Pronounced [ˈmaɪ̯lə]. Often confused with mel and mein.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɪ̯lə] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Meile is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɪ̯lə]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,698 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.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 Meile, with forms such as "emile", "meiel", and "meille". 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, "mel", "mein", "Milf", 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 Meile, spelled M-E-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Längenmaß in der Größenordnung von 1 bis 11 Kilometer, früher in Deutschland und Österreich etwa 7,5 Kilometer entsprechend, noch heute offiziell im Vereinigten Königreich und in den Vereinigten Staaten (1,609 Kilometer) sowie inoffiziell noch in Norwegen und Schweden (10 Kilometer)
- 2meist geradlinig verlaufende Straße, in der etwas Besonderes ist/stattfindet
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emile,meiel,meille,melie,miele,mmeile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Meile
Misspelling Variants of "Meile"
Frequency rank: #15,698 in German
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