Mittel
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,236
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Mittel is aGermannoun. It means: etwas (eine Maßnahme, Gegenstand, Stoff und so weiter) mit einem bestimmten Zweck/einer gewissen Funktion, um etwas zu erreichen oder zu erzielen Pronounced [ˈmɪtl̩]. It ranks #1,236 in German word frequency. Often confused with Motel and Motte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mittel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɪtl̩] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Mittel is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmɪtl̩]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,236 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mittel, with forms such as "imttel", "mitel", and "mitetl". 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, "Motel", "Motte", "Mutter", 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 Mittel, spelled M-I-T-T-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1etwas (eine Maßnahme, Gegenstand, Stoff und so weiter) mit einem bestimmten Zweck/einer gewissen Funktion, um etwas zu erreichen oder zu erzielen
- 2Geldmittel oder andere Werte
- 3in der Mitte, im Durchschnitt liegender Wert
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imttel,mitel,mitetl,mittell,mittle,mmittel,mtitel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Mittel
Misspelling Variants of "Mittel"
Frequency rank: #1,236 in German
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Nearby German words
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