mystery
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The verdict
“mystery” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #17,368. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,368
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Geheimnis, Mysterium
Corpus desk
Index DE-mystery · mystery · German
mystery · rank #17,368 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,368
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Muskulatur
Nearest frequency peer: Muskulatur (-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 „mystery“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- mitzumachen
mitzumachen
82,637 corpus weight
- Motion
Motion
82,635 corpus weight
- Muskulatur
Muskulatur
82,634 corpus weight
- mystery
mystery
82,633 corpus weight
- Nachschub
Nachschub
82,632 corpus weight
- Namibia
Namibia
82,631 corpus weight
What this shows „mystery“ 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 | mystery |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,368 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „mystery“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mystery (IPA […]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,368 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mystery, with forms such as "mmystery", "msytery", and "mysetry". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "of", "TO", "video", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 mystery, spelled M-Y-S-T-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Geheimnis, Mysterium
- 2Rätsel
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmystery
- msytery
- mysetry
- mysstery
- mysterry
- mysteryy
- mysteyr
- mystrey
- mysttery
- mytsery
- myystery
- ymstery
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mystery - 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 "mystery", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).