mischen
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,598
in German word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mischen is aGermanverb. It means: verschiedene Substanzen (beispielsweise Flüssigkeiten, Chemikalien, Pulver) zusammenschütten (meist in ein Behältnis), durcheinanderrühren/mixen, sodass ein einheitliches Gemisch entsteht Pronounced [ˈmɪʃn̩]. It ranks #8,598 in German word frequency. Often confused with mischt and missen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mischen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmɪʃn̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for mischen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmɪʃn̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,598 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for mischen, with forms such as "imschen", "micshen", and "miscchen". 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, "mischt", "missen", "München", 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 mischen, spelled M-I-S-C-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1verschiedene Substanzen (beispielsweise Flüssigkeiten, Chemikalien, Pulver) zusammenschütten (meist in ein Behältnis), durcheinanderrühren/mixen, sodass ein einheitliches Gemisch entsteht
- 2etwas bestimmtes (beispielsweise Beton, einen Cocktail, Gift) durch [1] herstellen
- 3vor dem Spiel die Reihenfolge von Spielkarten in Unordnung bringen
- 4sich mit etwas beschäftigen/befassen, was einen nichts angeht/nicht betrifft
- 5sich als Einzelner oder kleine Gruppe zu einer großen Menschenmenge gesellen (oft um dort unerkannt zu bleiben)
- 6Töne/Tonspuren/Geräusche so mixen, dass ein Stück entsteht
- 7zwei (oft gegenteilige oder unterschiedliche) Dinge vermengen/kombinieren
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imschen,micshen,miscchen,miscehn,mischenn,mischhen,mischne,mishcen,misschen,mmischen,msichen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mischen
Misspelling Variants of "mischen"
Frequency rank: #8,598 in German
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