mercury
[ˈməːkjəri]
The verdict
“mercury” has 11 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,500
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quecksilber
Corpus desk
Index DE-mercury · mercury · German
mercury · rank #36,500 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,500
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mea
Nearest frequency peer: mea (-2 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 „mercury“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Martyrium
Martyrium
63,506 corpus weight
- mea
mea
63,503 corpus weight
- mercury
mercury
63,501 corpus weight
- Milligramm
Milligramm
63,499 corpus weight
- Miltenberg
Miltenberg
63,498 corpus weight
- Mineralogie
Mineralogie
63,497 corpus weight
What this shows „mercury“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mercury |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈməːkjəri] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „mercury“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around mercury (IPA [ˈməːkjəri]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,500 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mercury, with forms such as "emrcury", "mecrury", and "merccury". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Merkur", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is mercury, spelled M-E-R-C-U-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Quecksilber
- 2Quecksilbersäule
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mercury appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"In China and Tibet, mercury use was thought to prolong life, heal fractures, and maintain generally good health, although it is now known that exposure to mercury leads to serious adverse health effects."
Wainuiomata in Lower Hutt doesn't often set national records - but yesterday the mercury climbed to a high of 32.3°C.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrcury
- mecrury
- merccury
- mercruy
- mercurry
- mercuryy
- mercuyr
- merrcury
- merucry
- mmercury
- mrecury
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mercury - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "mercury", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).