Mittelstadt
[ˈmɪtl̩ˌʃtat]
The verdict
“Mittelstadt” is uncommon German (frequency #75,978 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,978
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - im deutschsprachigen Raum Bezeichnung für eine Stadt mit 20.000 bis 100.000 Einwohnern
Corpus desk
Index DE-mittelstadt · Mittelstadt · German
Mittelstadt · rank #75,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,978
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH MLB
Nearest frequency peer: MLB (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Mittelstadt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- misslungene
misslungene
24,029 corpus weight
- mitbestimmt
mitbestimmt
24,027 corpus weight
- mitgereisten
mitgereisten
24,026 corpus weight
- Mittelstadt
Mittelstadt
24,023 corpus weight
- MLB
MLB
24,022 corpus weight
- Mofas
Mofas
24,019 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Mittelstadt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mittelstadt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɪtl̩ˌʃtat] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #75,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Mittelstadt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Mittelstadt is uncommon German at frequency #75,978 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɪtl̩ˌʃtat]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "im deutschsprachigen Raum Bezeichnung für eine Stadt mit 20.000 bis 100.000 Einwohnern".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mittelstadt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct German form is Mittelstadt, spelled M-I-T-T-E-L-S-T-A-D-T.
Definition
- 1im deutschsprachigen Raum Bezeichnung für eine Stadt mit 20.000 bis 100.000 Einwohnern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mittelstadt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das Leben in einer Mittelstadt hat Vor- und Nachteile.
„Für Göttingen gilt auch die Bezeichnung Mittelstadt, was zum Bundesland passt: Niedersachsen hat die meisten Mittelstädte in Deutschland aufzuweisen.“
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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