Methanol
[metaˈnoːl]
The verdict
“Methanol” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #48,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,332
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alkohol mit der Summenformel CH₄O und der Strukturformel CH₃-OH
Corpus desk
Index DE-methanol · Methanol · German
Methanol · rank #48,332 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,332
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH meteorologisc…
Nearest frequency peer: meteorologischen (-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 „Methanol“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mesopotamien
Mesopotamien
51,672 corpus weight
- meteorologi…
meteorologische
51,671 corpus weight
- meteorologi…
meteorologischen
51,670 corpus weight
- Methanol
Methanol
51,669 corpus weight
- mietet
mietet
51,668 corpus weight
- mighty
mighty
51,667 corpus weight
What this shows „Methanol“ 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 | Methanol |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [metaˈnoːl] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Methanol“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Methanol (IPA [metaˈnoːl]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,332 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alkohol mit der Summenformel CH₄O und der Strukturformel CH₃-OH".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Methanol, with forms such as "emthanol", "mehtanol", and "metahnol". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Methan", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Methanol, spelled M-E-T-H-A-N-O-L.
Definition
- 1Alkohol mit der Summenformel CH₄O und der Strukturformel CH₃-OH
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Methanol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Methanol mit Methansäure ergibt Methansäuremethylester.
„Und natürlich war das Spektrometer zuvor auseinandergenommen und in Methanol gebadet worden.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emthanol
- mehtanol
- metahnol
- methanlo
- methannol
- methanoll
- methaonl
- methhanol
- methnaol
- metthanol
- mmethanol
- mtehanol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Methanol - 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 "Methanol", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).