mirror

/[…]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#20,999

in German word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mirror is aGermannoun. It means: Spiegel Pronounced […]. Often confused with of and TO.

Key facts for mirror
PropertyValue
Headwordmirror
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#20,999
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mirror in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for mirror is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,999 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Spiegel".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mirror, with forms such as "imrror", "miror", and "mirorr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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.

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 mirror, spelled M-I-R-R-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Spiegel

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imrror,miror,mirorr,mirrorr,mirrro,mmirror,mriror

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mirror

Misspelling Variants of "mirror"

imrror6miror5mirorr6mirrorr7mirrro6mmirror7mriror6
Misspelling Variants of "mirror"

Frequency rank: #20,999 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mirror"?
"mirror" is spelled M-I-R-R-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "mirror" mean?
As a noun, "mirror" means: Spiegel
What words are commonly confused with "mirror"?
"mirror" 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 "mirror"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mirror" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mirror" come from?
"mirror" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby German words

Other entries that begin with the letter M in our German index:

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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.