meta
[ˈmɛːta]
The verdict
“meta” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,360) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,360
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - als Ort: das Ziel
Corpus desk
Index DE-meta · meta · German
meta · rank #14,360 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,360
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH maximalen
Nearest frequency peer: maximalen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „meta“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Manöver
Manöver
85,644 corpus weight
- Marihuana
Marihuana
85,643 corpus weight
- maximalen
maximalen
85,642 corpus weight
- meta
meta
85,641 corpus weight
- Mitchell
Mitchell
85,639 corpus weight
- mitsamt
mitsamt
85,638 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „meta“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | meta |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɛːta] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „meta“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for meta is neighbouring look-alikes ("Mt", "mit", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmɛːta]. Frequency #14,360 among 3,571 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for meta, with forms such as "emta", "metta", and "mmeta". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mt", "mit", "Mut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is meta, spelled M-E-T-A.
Definition
- 1als Ort: das Ziel
- 2als Zweck: das Ziel
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emta
- metta
- mmeta
- mtea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meta - 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 "meta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).