Mittelwelle
[ˈmɪtl̩ˌvɛlə]
The verdict
“Mittelwelle” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - elektromagnetische Welle mit mittlerer Wellenlänge (von 100 m bis 1000 m)
Corpus desk
Index DE-mittelwelle · Mittelwelle · German
Mittelwelle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mittelwelle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɪtl̩ˌvɛlə] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Mittelwelle“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Mittelwelle is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmɪtl̩ˌvɛlə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Mittelwelle in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Mittelwelle, spelled M-I-T-T-E-L-W-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1elektromagnetische Welle mit mittlerer Wellenlänge (von 100 m bis 1000 m)
- 2Wellenbereich von [1], höherer Frequenzbereich (von 300 kHz bis 3 MHz) als Langwellen, niedriger Frequenzbereich als Kurzwellen
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mittelwelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Auf Grund ihrer guten Reflexionseigenschaften an der Ionosphäre eignet sich die Mittelwelle besonders zur Fernübertragung und wird vom Rundfunk, von Funkamateuren (160-Meter-Band) und im Seefunk benutzt.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.