Musical
[ˈmjuːzɪkl̩]
The verdict
“Musical” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #6,959. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,959
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - moderne Form des Singspiels, Theateraufführung mit Gesang und Tanz, meist im Stil der Popmusik
Corpus desk
Index DE-musical · Musical · German
Musical · rank #6,959 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,959
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Moschee
Nearest frequency peer: Moschee (-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 „Musical“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- miller
miller
93,045 corpus weight
- missbraucht
missbraucht
93,044 corpus weight
- Moschee
Moschee
93,043 corpus weight
- Musical
Musical
93,042 corpus weight
- männlich
männlich
93,041 corpus weight
- Offenbach
Offenbach
93,039 corpus weight
What this shows „Musical“ 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 | Musical |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmjuːzɪkl̩] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Musical“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Musical (IPA [ˈmjuːzɪkl̩]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,959 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "moderne Form des Singspiels, Theateraufführung mit Gesang und Tanz, meist im Stil der Popmusik".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Musical, with forms such as "mmusical", "msuical", and "muiscal". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Musicals", "music", "musica", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Musical, spelled M-U-S-I-C-A-L.
Definition
- 1moderne Form des Singspiels, Theateraufführung mit Gesang und Tanz, meist im Stil der Popmusik
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Musical appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Der Sänger und Schauspieler wirkte in bekannten Musicals, wie „Cats“ oder „Tanz der Vampire“ mit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmusical
- msuical
- muiscal
- muscial
- musiacl
- musicall
- musiccal
- musicla
- mussical
- umsical
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Musical - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Musical", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).