míra

/[ˈmiːra]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

míra is aGermannoun. It means: (bestimmte) Größe, Länge, Abmessung oder Menge von etwas; Maß, Ausmaß Pronounced [ˈmiːra].

Key facts for míra
PropertyValue
Headwordmíra
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmiːra]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

míra is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for míra is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmiːra]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for míra in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 míra, spelled M-Í-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    (bestimmte) Größe, Länge, Abmessung oder Menge von etwas; Maß, Ausmaß
  2. 2
    Umfang bzw. ein gewisses Limit, dessen Angemessenheit von der Sicht des Sprechers abhängt; Ausmaß, Grenze
  3. 3
    gewöhnlich in Prozent ausgedrückter Wert, der eine Änderung angibt, oder auch, welcher Teil vom Ganzen eine spezifische Eigenschaft aufweist; Ausmaß, Rate, Quote, Satz
  4. 4
    richtige, angemessene, vorgegebene Größe oder Menge; Maß
  5. 5
    geistiger Zustand oder Stimmung; Fassung, Verfassung, Laune
  6. 6
    Einheit, mit der die Größe eines Körpers oder die Menge einer Flüssigkeit gemessen wird; Maß

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "míra"?
"míra" is spelled M-Í-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmiːra].
What does "míra" mean?
As a noun, "míra" means: (bestimmte) Größe, Länge, Abmessung oder Menge von etwas; Maß, Ausmaß
How do you pronounce "míra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "míra" is [ˈmiːra]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "míra" come from?
"míra" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.