Museum
[muˈzeːʊm]
The verdict
“Museum” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,673. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,673
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Einrichtung zur thematischen Forschung und Archivierung, der präsentierten Aufbereitung und Ausstellung ausgewählter Ausstellungsstücke für die Öffentlichkeit mit meist pädagogischem Anspruch
Corpus desk
Index DE-museum · Museum · German
Museum · rank #1,673 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,673
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Modell
Nearest frequency peer: Modell (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Museum“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Landkreis
Landkreis
98,331 corpus weight
- Leistungen
Leistungen
98,330 corpus weight
- Modell
Modell
98,329 corpus weight
- Museum
Museum
98,328 corpus weight
- nehme
nehme
98,327 corpus weight
- Produkte
Produkte
98,326 corpus weight
What this shows „Museum“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Museum |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [muˈzeːʊm] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,673 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Museum“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Museum (IPA [muˈzeːʊm]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,673 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "eine Einrichtung zur thematischen Forschung und Archivierung, der präsentierten Aufbereitung und Ausstellung ausgewählter Ausstellungsstücke für die Öffentlichkeit mit meist pädagogischem Anspruch".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Museum, with forms such as "mmuseum", "msueum", and "muesum". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Muslim", "museums", "Muse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Museum, spelled M-U-S-E-U-M.
Definition
- 1eine Einrichtung zur thematischen Forschung und Archivierung, der präsentierten Aufbereitung und Ausstellung ausgewählter Ausstellungsstücke für die Öffentlichkeit mit meist pädagogischem Anspruch
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Museum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Besuch des Museums lohnt sich immer.
„Das Wort ‚Museum‘ leitet sich von einer Schöpfung Alexanders (des Großen) her, dem ‚Museion‘ in Alexandria, das als Tempel der Musen eine Stätte der Bildung und Kunst war.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmuseum
- msueum
- muesum
- musemu
- museumm
- musseum
- musuem
- umseum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Museum - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Museum", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).