Mullah
[ˈmʊla]
The verdict
“Mullah” is uncommon German (frequency #74,897 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,897
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titel für islamische Gelehrte
Corpus desk
Index DE-mullah · Mullah · German
Mullah · rank #74,897 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,897
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH multimedialen
Nearest frequency peer: multimedialen (+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 „Mullah“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- motorcycle
motorcycle
25,106 corpus weight
- Mullah
Mullah
25,104 corpus weight
- multimedial…
multimedialen
25,103 corpus weight
- mundlos
mundlos
25,102 corpus weight
- mutlos
mutlos
25,101 corpus weight
- Mylord
Mylord
25,100 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Mullah“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mullah |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmʊla] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,897 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Mullah“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Mullah is uncommon German at frequency #74,897 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmʊla]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mullah, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Mullah, spelled M-U-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Titel für islamische Gelehrte
- 2Träger des Titels [1]
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mullah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Seine Gegner zweifeln an seiner Ausbildung zum Mullah und werfen ihm Analphabetismus und mangelnde Kenntnis des Islam vor.“
„Und als Mönche und Mullahs für diese Woche zu einem gemeinsamen Friedensgebet in Mandelay aufriefen, für die Versöhnung zwischen den Religionen beten und vor der Gefahr einer Ausweitung des Konflikts über die Rakhine-Grenzen hinaus warnen wollten, verboten es ihnen die burmesischen Behörden kurzerhand.“
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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