includingvsminWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#44,703
“including” frequency rank
#1,562
“min” frequency rank
46265
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature including min
Definition Partizip Präsens (present participle) des Verbs include Minute

Letter map: including vs min

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

9 ch
including
3 ch
min

Grammar separator: including vs min

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: including is averb and minanabbrev. On the page they differ by 6 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46265, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

including is recorded at frequency rank #44,703, 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 46265, this pair ranks #1,325,056 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of including vs min

Shared letters: in. Private to "including": cdglu. Private to "min": m.

"including" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC  ·  "min" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • includingicnluding · inccluding · inclduing · inclluding · includding · includign · includingg · includinng

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "including" for "min" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "including" is a verb and "min" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "including" or "min" show up more?
"min" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,562 in our German list, against #44,703 for "including". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "including" 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 #1,325,056 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "including" and "min" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "including 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 #1,325,056 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