Windmühle
The verdict
“Windmühle” is a moderately-common German word, ranked #41,578 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #41,578
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
Dominant Wiktionary sense: eine mit Flügeln zur Nutzung der Windkraft ausgestattete Mühle (mit einem Mühlrad) für verschiedene Einsatzbereiche, (ursprünglich) hauptsächlich um Korn oder Getreide zu mahlen
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Windmühle |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈvɪntˌmyːlə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,578 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Windmühle” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Windmühle is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈvɪntˌmyːlə]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,578 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "eine mit Flügeln zur Nutzung der Windkraft ausgestattete Mühle (mit einem Mühlrad) für verschiedene Einsatzbereiche, (ursprünglich) hauptsächlich um Korn oder Getreide zu mahlen".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Windmühle, with forms such as "iwndmühle", "widnmühle", and "winddmühle". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Windmühlen", 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 Windmühle, spelled W-I-N-D-M-Ü-H-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine mit Flügeln zur Nutzung der Windkraft ausgestattete Mühle (mit einem Mühlrad) für verschiedene Einsatzbereiche, (ursprünglich) hauptsächlich um Korn oder Getreide zu mahlen
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iwndmühle,widnmühle,winddmühle,windmhüle,windmmühle,windmühel,windmühhle,windmühlle,windmülhe,windümhle,winmdühle,winndmühle,wnidmühle,wwindmühle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Windmühle — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "Windmühle"
Frequency rank: #41,578 in German
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Using “Windmühle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is W-I-N-D-M-Ü-H-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈvɪntˌmyːlə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Windmühlen” — see the side-by-side comparison. Windmühle vs Windmühlen
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Nearby German words
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