Metropolis
[meˈtʁoːpolɪs]
The verdict
“Metropolis” has 15 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #32,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,669
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Weltstadt, die Hauptstadt mit weltstädtischem Charakter, die Provinzhauptstadt
Corpus desk
Index DE-metropolis · Metropolis · German
Metropolis · rank #32,669 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,669
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meilensteine
Nearest frequency peer: Meilensteine (-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 „Metropolis“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- medici
medici
67,335 corpus weight
- medicine
medicine
67,334 corpus weight
- Meilensteine
Meilensteine
67,333 corpus weight
- Metropolis
Metropolis
67,332 corpus weight
- Metzgerei
Metzgerei
67,331 corpus weight
- migros
migros
67,330 corpus weight
What this shows „Metropolis“ 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 | Metropolis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈtʁoːpolɪs] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #32,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Metropolis“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Metropolis (IPA [meˈtʁoːpolɪs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,669 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Metropolis, with forms such as "emtropolis", "mertopolis", and "metorpolis". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Metropole", "Metropolen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Metropolis, spelled M-E-T-R-O-P-O-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1die Weltstadt, die Hauptstadt mit weltstädtischem Charakter, die Provinzhauptstadt
- 2die Bischofskirche
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Metropolis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cöln eine Metropolis des nördlichen Galliens.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emtropolis
- mertopolis
- metorpolis
- metrooplis
- metroplois
- metropoils
- metropoliss
- metropollis
- metropolsi
- metroppolis
- metrpoolis
- metrropolis
- mettropolis
- mmetropolis
- mteropolis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Metropolis - 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 "Metropolis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).