Melancholie
[melaŋkoˈliː]
The verdict
“Melancholie” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #21,354. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,354
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zustand der Schwermut oder Depression, psychische Niedergeschlagenheit, große Traurigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-melancholie · Melancholie · German
Melancholie · rank #21,354 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,354
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mayr
Nearest frequency peer: Mayr (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Melancholie“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- manu
manu
78,651 corpus weight
- Marien
Marien
78,650 corpus weight
- mayo
mayo
78,649 corpus weight
- Mayr
Mayr
78,648 corpus weight
- Melancholie
Melancholie
78,647 corpus weight
- Mimik
Mimik
78,644 corpus weight
What this shows „Melancholie“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melancholie |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [melaŋkoˈliː] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #21,354 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Melancholie“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Melancholie (IPA [melaŋkoˈliː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,354 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Zustand der Schwermut oder Depression, psychische Niedergeschlagenheit, große Traurigkeit".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Melancholie, with forms such as "emlancholie", "mealncholie", and "melacnholie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Melancholie, spelled M-E-L-A-N-C-H-O-L-I-E.
Definition
- 1Zustand der Schwermut oder Depression, psychische Niedergeschlagenheit, große Traurigkeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Melancholie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In der Psychologie wird der Begriff Melancholie heute durch den Begriff Depression ersetzt.
„Der Weltschmerz ist verwandt mit der Schwermut, auch Melancholie genannt.“
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlancholie
- mealncholie
- melacnholie
- melanccholie
- melanchholie
- melanchloie
- melanchoile
- melancholei
- melanchollie
- melancohlie
- melanhcolie
- melanncholie
- mellancholie
- melnacholie
- mleancholie
- mmelancholie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Melancholie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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