Meistern

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Meistern is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɪ̯stɐn]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,288 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dativ Plural des Substantivs Meister".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for Meistern, with forms such as "emistern", "meisetrn", and "meisstern". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Metern", "Mister", "mustern", 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 Meistern, spelled M-E-I-S-T-E-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.