Müllbeutel
[ˈmʏlˌbɔɪ̯tl̩]
The verdict
“Müllbeutel” is uncommon German (frequency #77,093 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,093
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ein Beutel aus Plastik, der zur Aufbewahrung von Müll dient (zumeist in einen Mülleimer eingehängt)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Müllbeutel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmʏlˌbɔɪ̯tl̩] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Müllbeutel” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Müllbeutel is uncommon German at frequency #77,093 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmʏlˌbɔɪ̯tl̩]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ein Beutel aus Plastik, der zur Aufbewahrung von Müll dient (zumeist in einen Mülleimer eingehängt)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Müllbeutel, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Müllbeutel, spelled M-Ü-L-L-B-E-U-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1ein Beutel aus Plastik, der zur Aufbewahrung von Müll dient (zumeist in einen Mülleimer eingehängt)
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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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Using “Müllbeutel”
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- The one correct German spelling is M-Ü-L-L-B-E-U-T-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.