Mitternacht
[ˈmɪtɐˌnaxt]
The verdict
“Mitternacht” has 16 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #5,984. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,984
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der Zeitpunkt 24 Uhr
Corpus desk
Index DE-mitternacht · Mitternacht · German
Mitternacht · rank #5,984 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,984
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mittelmeer
Nearest frequency peer: Mittelmeer (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mitternacht”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mitbekommen
mitbekommen
94,020 corpus weight
- mitgenommen
mitgenommen
94,019 corpus weight
- Mittelmeer
Mittelmeer
94,018 corpus weight
- Mitternacht
Mitternacht
94,017 corpus weight
- Museen
Museen
94,016 corpus weight
- musikalisch…
musikalischen
94,015 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mitternacht” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mitternacht |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɪtɐˌnaxt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #5,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Mitternacht” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Mitternacht (IPA [ˈmɪtɐˌnaxt]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,984 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "der Zeitpunkt 24 Uhr".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mitternacht, with forms such as "imtternacht", "miternacht", and "mitetrnacht". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Mitternacht, spelled M-I-T-T-E-R-N-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1der Zeitpunkt 24 Uhr
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mitternacht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man kann nicht jeden Tag um Mitternacht ins Bett gehen.
„Gegen Mitternacht, als seine Wange noch dicker geworden war und jede Bewegung an jeder Stelle seines Körpers weh tat, wurde ihm klar, daß der Barbier den falschen Zahn gezogen hatte.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imtternacht
- miternacht
- mitetrnacht
- mittenracht
- mitterancht
- mitternaccht
- mitternachht
- mitternachtt
- mitternacth
- mitternahct
- mitterncaht
- mitternnacht
- mitterrnacht
- mittrenacht
- mmitternacht
- mtiternacht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mitternacht - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
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Data Source
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.