Mykonos
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The verdict
“Mykonos” is uncommon German (frequency #85,611 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,611
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - griechische Insel der Kykladen im Ägäischen Meer
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mykonos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mykonos” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Mykonos is uncommon German at frequency #85,611 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "griechische Insel der Kykladen im Ägäischen Meer".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mykonos, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Mykonos, spelled M-Y-K-O-N-O-S.
Definition
- 1griechische Insel der Kykladen im Ägäischen Meer
This word in other languages
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 “Mykonos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-Y-K-O-N-O-S - 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.