mühevoll

[ˈmyːəˌfɔl]

/[ˈmyːəˌfɔl]/ adj

The verdict

“mühevoll” is uncommon German (frequency #62,667 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,667
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - voller Mühe, unter großer Anstrengung

Corpus desk

Index DE-muhevoll · mühevoll · German

mühevoll · rank #62,667 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,667
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH mörderisch

Nearest frequency peer: mörderisch (-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 „mühevoll“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „mühevoll“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mühevoll
PropertyValue
Headwordmühevoll
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈmyːəˌfɔl]
Letters8
Frequency rank#62,667
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „mühevoll“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.mühevollfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „mörderisch“ (#62,666), „möglichem“ (#62,665), „Mündel“ (#62,669). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „mühevoll“ bei #62,667. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mühevoll is uncommon German at frequency #62,667 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈmyːəˌfɔl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "voller Mühe, unter großer Anstrengung".

mühevoll doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is mühevoll, spelled M-Ü-H-E-V-O-L-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    voller Mühe, unter großer Anstrengung

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how mühevoll appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Dass sich das Werkchen doch erhalten hatte, grenzt an ein Wunder, und seine mühevolle Wiederentdeckung ist eine schöne Detektivgeschichte der Philologie.“
  2. „Da der mühevolle Anstieg zunächst eher Unlust und sogar Qual bereitet, als dass er vergnüglich wäre, drängt Petrarca in seinem Steigverhalten unwillkürlich immer wieder auf den flacheren Weg.“

Antonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mühevoll"?
"mühevoll" is spelled M-Ü-H-E-V-O-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmyːəˌfɔl].
What does "mühevoll" mean?
As an adjective, "mühevoll" means: voller Mühe, unter großer Anstrengung
How do you pronounce "mühevoll"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mühevoll" is [ˈmyːəˌfɔl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mühevoll" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mühevoll", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list