Mietwagen
[ˈmiːtˌvaːɡn̩]
The verdict
“Mietwagen” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #20,342. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,342
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fahrzeug, das man gegen eine Gebühr vorübergehend als Selbstfahrer nutzen kann
Corpus desk
Index DE-mietwagen · Mietwagen · German
Mietwagen · rank #20,342 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #20,342
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mitbegründer
Nearest frequency peer: Mitbegründer (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mietwagen”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Maskottchen
Maskottchen
79,662 corpus weight
- Menschenwür…
Menschenwürde
79,661 corpus weight
- Mietwagen
Mietwagen
79,659 corpus weight
- Mitbegründer
Mitbegründer
79,658 corpus weight
- mMn
mMn
79,657 corpus weight
- mobiles
mobiles
79,656 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mietwagen” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Mietwagen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmiːtˌvaːɡn̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Mietwagen” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Mietwagen (IPA [ˈmiːtˌvaːɡn̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,342 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fahrzeug, das man gegen eine Gebühr vorübergehend als Selbstfahrer nutzen kann".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mietwagen, with forms such as "imetwagen", "meitwagen", and "mietawgen". 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, "mittragen", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Mietwagen, spelled M-I-E-T-W-A-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Fahrzeug, das man gegen eine Gebühr vorübergehend als Selbstfahrer nutzen kann
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mietwagen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wenn das eigene Fahrzeug in die Werkstatt muss, braucht man womöglich einen Mietwagen.
„Einige kamen im Mietwagen oder mit dem Taxi von der Bahnstation im Tal herauf.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imetwagen
- meitwagen
- mietawgen
- miettwagen
- mietwaegn
- mietwagenn
- mietwaggen
- mietwagne
- mietwgaen
- mietwwagen
- miewtagen
- mitewagen
- mmietwagen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mietwagen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Mietwagen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "mittragen". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #20,342 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.