merle
[mɛʁl]
The verdict
“merle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #28,761. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,761
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amsel
Corpus desk
Index DE-merle · merle · German
merle · rank #28,761 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,761
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH meld
Nearest frequency peer: meld (-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 „merle“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- massa
massa
71,243 corpus weight
- meld
meld
71,241 corpus weight
- merle
merle
71,240 corpus weight
- methodisch
methodisch
71,239 corpus weight
- Mett
Mett
71,238 corpus weight
- meute
meute
71,237 corpus weight
What this shows „merle“ 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 | merle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɛʁl] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,761 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „merle“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around merle (IPA [mɛʁl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,761 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Amsel".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for merle, with forms such as "emrle", "melre", and "merel". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mile", "Messe", "Mühle", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is merle, spelled M-E-R-L-E.
Definition
- 1Amsel
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrle
- melre
- merel
- merlle
- merrle
- mmerle
- mrele
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "merle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).