Which to use
“Mails” is a noun and “meins” is an unknown - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,633
- “Mails” frequency rank
- #7,085
- “meins” frequency rank
- 11718
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Mails | meins |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nominativ Plural des Substantivs Mail | Nominativ Singular Neutrum bei nicht attributivem Gebrauch des Possessivpronomens mein |
Where the eye mixes Mails and meins
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. Mails and meins follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: Mails vs meins
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: Mails is [mɛɪ̯ls] while meins is [maɪ̯ns]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs unknown), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11718, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Mails is recorded at frequency rank #4,633, classified as anoun, pronounced [mɛɪ̯ls]. meins is at rank #7,085, tagged as anunknown, pronounced [maɪ̯ns].
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 11718, this pair ranks #1,968,314 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of Mails vs meins
Shared letters: ims. Private to "Mails": al. Private to "meins": en.
"Mails" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "meins" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "Mails" for "meins" ever safe?
Frequency check: "Mails" vs "meins" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "Mails" and "meins" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "Mails" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "meins" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,968,314 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Mails" and "meins" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Mails vs Milfs". 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 #1,968,314 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.