evilvsmundiTell them apart

Quick tell: evil is a adjective, mundi is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“evil” is an adjective and “mundi” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#15,620
“evil” frequency rank
#42,013
“mundi” frequency rank
57633
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature evil mundi
Definition böse Genitiv Singular des Substantivs mundus

Letter map: evil vs mundi

Shared letters muted; letters that set evil and mundi apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. evil runs 4 letters (VCVC) against mundi's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
evil
5 ch
mundi

Role in the sentence - evil and mundi

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: evil is anadjective and mundianoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57633, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

evil is recorded at frequency rank #15,620, classified as anadj, pronounced […]. mundi is at rank #42,013, tagged as anoun, 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 57633, this pair ranks #893,852 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of evil vs mundi

Shared letters: i. Private to "evil": elv. Private to "mundi": dmnu.

"evil" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "mundi" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • evileivl · evill · evli · evvil
  • mundimmundi · mnudi · mudni · munddi · munid · munndi · umndi

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "evil" and "mundi" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "evil" is an adjective and "mundi" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "evil" or "mundi" show up more?
"evil" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,620 in our German list, against #42,013 for "mundi". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "evil" and "mundi". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "evil" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mundi" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #893,852 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "evil" and "mundi" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mundi 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 #893,852 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