Messina
[mɛˈsiːna]
The verdict
“Messina” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #46,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,140
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stadt auf Sizilien
Corpus desk
Index DE-messina · Messina · German
Messina · rank #46,140 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,140
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH members
Nearest frequency peer: members (-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 „Messina“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Meersburg
Meersburg
53,863 corpus weight
- members
members
53,862 corpus weight
- Messina
Messina
53,861 corpus weight
- Metastasen
Metastasen
53,860 corpus weight
- Michal
Michal
53,859 corpus weight
- Militärdikt…
Militärdiktatur
53,858 corpus weight
What this shows „Messina“ 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 | Messina |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [mɛˈsiːna] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Messina“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Messina (IPA [mɛˈsiːna]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,140 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Stadt auf Sizilien".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Messina, with forms such as "emssina", "mesina", and "mesisna". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Messung", "Messing", "missing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Messina, spelled M-E-S-S-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Stadt auf Sizilien
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Messina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ansonsten sei es in Deutschland sehr viel kälter als in Messina, aber die Leute, die er getroffen hatte, seien alle sehr nett gewesen, auch wenn er nicht alles verstanden hatte, was sie so von sich gaben.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emssina
- mesina
- mesisna
- messian
- messinna
- messnia
- meßina
- mmessina
- msesina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Messina - 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 "Messina", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).