Merkmal
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,950
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
Merkmal is aGermannoun. It means: typische Eigenschaft, an der man erkennt, wodurch sich etwas von Ähnlichem unterscheidet Pronounced [ˈmɛʁkmaːl]. It ranks #9,950 in German word frequency. Often confused with Merkmale and Merkmalen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Merkmal |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛʁkmaːl] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Merkmal is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmɛʁkmaːl]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,950 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Merkmal, with forms such as "emrkmal", "mekrmal", and "merkaml". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Merkmale", "Merkmalen", "Merkel", 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 Merkmal, spelled M-E-R-K-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1typische Eigenschaft, an der man erkennt, wodurch sich etwas von Ähnlichem unterscheidet
- 2Eigenschaft, die einem linguistischen Gegenstand (Phonem, Lexem,…) zugeschrieben wird
- 3logisches Prädikat einer statistischen Einheit (= eines Merkmalsträgers), beispielsweise „Zahlungsbereitschaft“ zur statistischen Einheit „Kunde“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emrkmal,mekrmal,merkaml,merkkmal,merkmall,merkmla,merkmmal,mermkal,merrkmal,mmerkmal,mrekmal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Merkmal
Misspelling Variants of "Merkmal"
Frequency rank: #9,950 in German
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "Merkmal"?
What does "Merkmal" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "Merkmal"?
How do you pronounce "Merkmal"?
What language does "Merkmal" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our German index: