Mistgabel
[ˈmɪstˌɡaːbl̩]
The verdict
“Mistgabel” is uncommon German (frequency #85,594 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,594
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gerät zum Greifen von Haufen aus festen größeren organischen Stoffen oder Abfällen, zum Beispiel Heu oder Unrat in Ställen, mit dem Aussehen einer überdimensionalen Gabel
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mistgabel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɪstˌɡaːbl̩] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mistgabel” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mistgabel is uncommon German at frequency #85,594 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɪstˌɡaːbl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gerät zum Greifen von Haufen aus festen größeren organischen Stoffen oder Abfällen, zum Beispiel Heu oder Unrat in Ställen, mit dem Aussehen einer überdimensionalen Gabel".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Mistgabel in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Mistgabel, spelled M-I-S-T-G-A-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1Gerät zum Greifen von Haufen aus festen größeren organischen Stoffen oder Abfällen, zum Beispiel Heu oder Unrat in Ställen, mit dem Aussehen einer überdimensionalen Gabel
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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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Using “Mistgabel”
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- The one correct German spelling is M-I-S-T-G-A-B-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.