mosquito
[muʃˈkitu]
The verdict
“mosquito” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mücke, Stechmücke, Moskito
Corpus desk
Index DE-mosquito · mosquito · German
mosquito · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 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 | mosquito |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [muʃˈkitu] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „mosquito“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
mosquito is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [muʃˈkitu]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mücke, Stechmücke, Moskito".
mosquito doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 mosquito, spelled M-O-S-Q-U-I-T-O.
Definition
- 1Mücke, Stechmücke, Moskito
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mosquito appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Os insetos (mosquitos, vespas, abelhas), picam para se alimentar ou para se defender.“
This word in other languages
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.