Metall
[meˈtal]
The verdict
“Metall” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,448. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,448
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fester Stoff mit charakteristischem Glanz sowie hoher Wärme- und Stromleitfähigkeit
Corpus desk
Index DE-metall · Metall · German
Metall · rank #4,448 · 6 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,448
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meisterschaft
Nearest frequency peer: Meisterschaft (-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 „Metall“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Lehrerin
Lehrerin
95,556 corpus weight
- medizinisch…
medizinischen
95,555 corpus weight
- Meisterscha…
Meisterschaft
95,554 corpus weight
- Metall
Metall
95,553 corpus weight
- Model
Model
95,552 corpus weight
- modern
modern
95,551 corpus weight
What this shows „Metall“ 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 | Metall |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈtal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,448 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Metall“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Metall (IPA [meˈtal]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,448 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "fester Stoff mit charakteristischem Glanz sowie hoher Wärme- und Stromleitfähigkeit".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Metall, with forms such as "emtall", "meatll", and "metlal". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Metalle", "Metallen", "metallic", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Metall, spelled M-E-T-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1fester Stoff mit charakteristischem Glanz sowie hoher Wärme- und Stromleitfähigkeit
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Metall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gartenzäune können aus Metall, Holz oder Kunststoff bestehen.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emtall
- meatll
- metlal
- mettall
- mmetall
- mteall
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Metall - 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 "Metall", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).