Micky Maus
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The verdict
“Micky Maus” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - eine Figur aus der Disney-Comicwelt um Entenhausen: anthropomorphe Maus
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Micky Maus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Micky Maus” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Micky Maus is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for Micky Maus in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Micky Maus, spelled M-I-C-K-Y- -M-A-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine Figur aus der Disney-Comicwelt um Entenhausen: anthropomorphe Maus
- 2eine danach benannte Heftreihe, die seit 1951 im Ehapa-Verlag erscheint
- 3Vorbild für typische, zugehörige Merkmale wie die großen, runden Ohren oder auch die hohe Stimme und dergleichen, häufig in Wortzusammensetzungen
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct German spelling is M-I-C-K-Y- -M-A-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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