MadevsmagConfusable pair

Quick tell: Made is a noun, mag is an unknown, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Made” is a noun and “mag” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,362
“Made” frequency rank
#411
“mag” frequency rank
7773
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Made mag
Definition Larve einer Fliege 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv von mögen

Where the eye mixes Made and mag

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
Made
3 ch
mag

Look-alike desk: Made vs mag

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Made is [ˈmaːdə] while mag is [maːk]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs unknown), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7773, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Made is recorded at frequency rank #7,362, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈmaːdə]. mag is at rank #411, tagged as anunknown, pronounced [maːk].

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 7773, this pair ranks #1,986,957 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Made vs mag

Shared letters: am. Private to "Made": de. Private to "mag": g.

"Made" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mag" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Madeamde · madde · maed · mdae · mmade

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Made" and "mag" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Made" is a noun and "mag" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Made" or "mag"?
"mag" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #411 in our German list, against #7,362 for "Made". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Made" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mag" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,986,957 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Made" and "mag" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Made vs Matze". 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 #1,986,957 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