Musik
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#412
in German word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
Musik is aGermannoun. It means: aus Klängen, Rhythmen und Melodien bestehende Form der Kunst Pronounced [muˈziːk]. It ranks #412 in German word frequency. Often confused with Muss and must.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Musik |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [muˈziːk] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Musik is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [muˈziːk]. Corpus data places it at rank #412 in overall German word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for Musik, with forms such as "mmusik", "msuik", and "muisk". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Muss", "must", "musst", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Musik, spelled M-U-S-I-K, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aus Klängen, Rhythmen und Melodien bestehende Form der Kunst
- 2tonkünstlerisch komponiertes oder improvisiertes Werk
- 3aufgeführtes, hörbar gemachtes Musikstück
- 4die Aufführenden von Musik, Musikkapelle, Tanzkapelle
- 5ein Unterrichtsfach, Schulfach
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmusik,msuik,muisk,musikk,muski,mussik,umsik
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Musik
Misspelling Variants of "Musik"
Frequency rank: #412 in German
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