mile
[maɪl]
The verdict
“mile” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,680) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,680
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Meile
Corpus desk
Index DE-mile · mile · German
mile · rank #42,680 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,680
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Migrantinnen
Nearest frequency peer: Migrantinnen (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „mile“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- methodischen
methodischen
57,323 corpus weight
- Migrantinnen
Migrantinnen
57,322 corpus weight
- mile
mile
57,321 corpus weight
- Mindestalter
Mindestalter
57,319 corpus weight
- Mirjam
Mirjam
57,318 corpus weight
- mistress
mistress
57,317 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mile“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | mile |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maɪl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mile“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mile is neighbouring look-alikes ("ml", "mit", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [maɪl]. Frequency #42,680 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Meile".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mile, with forms such as "imle", "miel", and "mlie". 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, "ml", "mit", "mir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 mile, spelled M-I-L-E.
Definition
- 1Meile
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mile appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My brother Peter runs more than 5 miles per day.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imle
- miel
- mlie
- mmile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mile - 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 "mile", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).