Mosul
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The verdict
“Mosul” is uncommon German (frequency #69,518 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,518
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - irakische, am Tigris gelegene Großstadt
Corpus desk
Index DE-mosul · Mosul · German
Mosul · rank #69,518 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,518
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH months
Nearest frequency peer: months (-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 “Mosul”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mogelpackung
Mogelpackung
30,486 corpus weight
- molto
molto
30,485 corpus weight
- months
months
30,484 corpus weight
- Mosul
Mosul
30,483 corpus weight
- Mountainbik…
Mountainbikes
30,482 corpus weight
- Musikgeschä…
Musikgeschäft
30,480 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mosul” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mosul |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mosul” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mosul is uncommon German at frequency #69,518 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "irakische, am Tigris gelegene Großstadt".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mosul in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Mosul, spelled M-O-S-U-L.
Definition
- 1irakische, am Tigris gelegene Großstadt
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); 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mosul", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.