mündig
[ˈmʏndɪç]
The verdict
“mündig” is uncommon German (frequency #69,525 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,525
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - erwachsen im rechtlichen Sinne
Corpus desk
Index DE-mundig · mündig · German
mündig · rank #69,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,525
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 44,424
- PHOTO-FINISH Mülldeponie
Nearest frequency peer: Mülldeponie (-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 “mündig”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mäh
mäh
30,479 corpus weight
- Mülldeponie
Mülldeponie
30,477 corpus weight
- mündig
mündig
30,476 corpus weight
- nachdachte
nachdachte
30,475 corpus weight
- Nachkommens…
Nachkommenschaft
30,474 corpus weight
- Nachkriegsd…
Nachkriegsdeutschland
30,473 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mündig” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mündig |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmʏndɪç] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mündig” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mündig is uncommon German at frequency #69,525 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [ˈmʏndɪç]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mündig doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is mündig, spelled M-Ü-N-D-I-G.
Definition
- 1erwachsen im rechtlichen Sinne
- 2aufgrund seines Alters fähig, bestimmte Entscheidungen zu treffen
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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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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 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.