Melbourne
[ˈmɛlbɐn]
The verdict
“Melbourne” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,156. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,156
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Großstadt in Australien, Hauptstadt von Victoria
Corpus desk
Index DE-melbourne · Melbourne · German
Melbourne · rank #15,156 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,156
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meditation
Nearest frequency peer: Meditation (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Melbourne”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- medical
medical
84,847 corpus weight
- Meditation
Meditation
84,846 corpus weight
- Melbourne
Melbourne
84,845 corpus weight
- mensa
mensa
84,844 corpus weight
- Messi
Messi
84,843 corpus weight
- Methodik
Methodik
84,842 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Melbourne” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melbourne |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛlbɐn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Melbourne” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Melbourne (IPA [ˈmɛlbɐn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,156 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Großstadt in Australien, Hauptstadt von Victoria".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Melbourne, with forms such as "emlbourne", "meblourne", and "melbbourne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Melbourne, spelled M-E-L-B-O-U-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Großstadt in Australien, Hauptstadt von Victoria
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Melbourne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Und auch Kunstrekorde kann man mit Eiern bestreiten: 2005 errichtete der Amerikaner Brian Spotts in der australischen Stadt Melbourne ein Kunstwerk, für das er 439 Eier ausbalanciert nebeneinander stellte.“
„In Melbourne erreicht der australische Schwimmer Jon Konrads einen Weltrekord über 1650 Yards (1500 m) Kraul in 17:28,7 min.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlbourne
- meblourne
- melbbourne
- melborune
- melbounre
- melbouren
- melbournne
- melbourrne
- melbuorne
- mellbourne
- meloburne
- mlebourne
- mmelbourne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Melbourne - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Melbourne", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #15,156 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.