Milet
[miˈleːt]
The verdict
“Milet” is uncommon German (frequency #83,066 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,066
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei
Corpus desk
Index DE-milet · Milet · German
Milet · rank #83,066 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,066
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH milestone
Nearest frequency peer: milestone (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Milet“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Metalls
Metalls
16,939 corpus weight
- mikroskopis…
mikroskopischen
16,937 corpus weight
- milestone
milestone
16,936 corpus weight
- Milet
Milet
16,935 corpus weight
- Mischmasch
Mischmasch
16,933 corpus weight
- miserabler
miserabler
16,932 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Milet“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Milet |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [miˈleːt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Milet“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Milet is uncommon German at frequency #83,066 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [miˈleːt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei".
Zero misspellings are on record for Milet in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Milet, spelled M-I-L-E-T.
Definition
- 1griechische Stadt an der Westküste Kleinasiens in der heutigen Türkei
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Milet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das Panionion war das Zentralheiligtum des Panionischen Bundes, zu dem sich zwölf ionische Städte - darunter so bedeutende wie Milet, Ephesos und Priene - in archaischer und klassischer Zeit vereint hatten.“
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); 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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