midnight

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/[…]/ noun

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The verdict

“midnight” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #31,180. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,180
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mitternacht

Corpus desk

Index DE-midnight · midnight · German

midnight · rank #31,180 · 13 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,180
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mexikos

Nearest frequency peer: Mexikos (-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 „midnight“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „midnight“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

midnight vs of
0% similar
midnight vs TO
0% similar
midnight vs video
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for midnight
PropertyValue
Headwordmidnight
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters8
Frequency rank#31,180
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „midnight“

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.midnightliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Mexikos“ (#31,179), „Metaphern“ (#31,178), „Mitglieds“ (#31,182). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „midnight“ bei #31,180. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around midnight (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,180 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mitternacht".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for midnight, with forms such as "imdnight", "mdinight", and "middnight". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "TO", "video", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is midnight, spelled M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mitternacht

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how midnight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. "A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey road, Woking, saw a star fall from heaven into the pine woods to the northwest."

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • imdnight
  • mdinight
  • middnight
  • midinght
  • midngiht
  • midnigght
  • midnighht
  • midnightt
  • midnigth
  • midnihgt
  • midnnight
  • mindight
  • mmidnight

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of midnight - 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.

imdnight2mdinight2middnight1midinght2midngiht2midnigght1midnighht1midnightt1
Edit distance from "midnight"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "midnight"?
"midnight" is spelled M-I-D-N-I-G-H-T. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "midnight" mean?
As a noun, "midnight" means: Mitternacht
What words are commonly confused with "midnight"?
"midnight" is commonly confused with "of", "TO", "video". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "midnight"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "midnight" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "midnight" come from?
"midnight" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "midnight", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Managern#31,168leckerer#31,151Körbchen#31,144Postbote#31,221

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

Obduktion13 variantsLektionen13 variantslangweile13 variantsKastanien13 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list