MalsvsmeldWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: Mals is a name, meld is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Mals” is a name and “meld” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,319
“Mals” frequency rank
#28,760
“meld” frequency rank
77079
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Mals meld
Definition eine Gemeinde in Südtirol 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs melden

Letter map: Mals vs meld

Shared letters muted; letters that set Mals and meld apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Mals and meld follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
Mals
4 ch
meld

Part-of-speech tell for Mals / meld

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Mals is aname and meldaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77079, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Mals is recorded at frequency rank #48,319, classified as aname, pronounced […]. meld is at rank #28,760, tagged as averb, pronounced [mɛlt].

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 77079, this pair ranks #268,971 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Mals vs meld

Shared letters: lm. Private to "Mals": as. Private to "meld": de.

"Mals" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "meld" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Mals ← amls · malls · malss · masl · mlas · mmals
  • meld ← emld · medl · meldd · melld · mled · mmeld

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Mals" and "meld" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Mals" is a name and "meld" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Mals" vs "meld" - which ranks higher?
"meld" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,760 in our German list, against #48,319 for "Mals". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Mals" and "meld".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Mals" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "meld" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #268,971 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Mals" and "meld" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Mals 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 #268,971 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