commentsvsminWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: comments is a verb, min is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“comments” is a verb and “min” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,988
“comments” frequency rank
#1,562
“min” frequency rank
32550
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comments min
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs comment Minute

Letter map: comments vs min

Shared letters muted; letters that set comments and min apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

8 ch
comments
3 ch
min

Part-of-speech tell for comments / min

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: comments is averb and minanabbrev. On the page they differ by 5 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32550, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comments is recorded at frequency rank #30,988, classified as averb, pronounced […]. min is at rank #1,562, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 32550, this pair ranks #1,705,268 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of comments vs min

Shared letters: mn. Private to "comments": ceost. Private to "min": i.

"comments" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCC  ·  "min" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • commentsccomments · cmoments · comemnts · coments · commennts · commenst · commentss · commentts

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "comments" and "min" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comments" is a verb and "min" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "comments" vs "min" - which ranks higher?
"min" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,562 in our German list, against #30,988 for "comments". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "comments" vs "min" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "comments" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "min" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,705,268 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comments" and "min" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "comments vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,705,268 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list