MadenvsMarekTell them apart

Quick tell: Maden is a noun, Marek is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Maden” is a noun and “Marek” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,673
“Maden” frequency rank
#23,227
“Marek” frequency rank
54900
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Maden Marek
Definition Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Made Familienname

Letter map: Maden vs Marek

Shared letters muted; letters that set Maden and Marek apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Maden and Marek follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
Maden
5 ch
Marek

Part-of-speech tell for Maden / Marek

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Maden is anoun and Marekaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54900, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Maden is recorded at frequency rank #31,673, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈmaːdn̩]. Marek is at rank #23,227, tagged as aname, 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 54900, this pair ranks #1,000,582 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Maden vs Marek

Shared letters: aem. Private to "Maden": dn. Private to "Marek": kr.

"Maden" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Marek" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Madenamden · madden · madenn · madne · maedn · mdaen · mmaden
  • Marekamrek · maerk · marekk · marrek · mmarek · mraek

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Maden" and "Marek" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Maden" is a noun and "Marek" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Maden" or "Marek" show up more?
"Marek" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,227 in our German list, against #31,673 for "Maden". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Maden" vs "Marek" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Maden" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Marek" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,000,582 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Maden" and "Marek" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Maden vs maroden". 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 #1,000,582 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