Metropole

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Metropole is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [metʁoˈpoːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,968 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "sehr große und/oder bedeutende Stadt/Stelle, weil sie die betreffende Region dominiert, Zentrum eines Ballungsraums ist oder zum Beispiel auch viele Kulturen beherbergt".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Metropole, with forms such as "emtropole", "mertopole", and "metorpole". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Metropolen", "Metropolis", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Metropole, spelled M-E-T-R-O-P-O-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.