manuvsminWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#21,350
“manu” frequency rank
#1,562
“min” frequency rank
22912
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature manu min
Definition Akkusativ Singular des Pronomens mans „mein“ Minute

Letter map: manu vs min

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

4 ch
manu
3 ch
min

Role in the sentence - manu and min

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: manu is anunknown and minanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22912, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

manu is recorded at frequency rank #21,350, classified as anunknown, 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 22912, this pair ranks #1,868,123 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of manu vs min

Shared letters: mn. Private to "manu": au. Private to "min": i.

"manu" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "min" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • manuamnu · mannu · maun · mmanu · mnau

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "manu" for "min" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "manu" is an unknown and "min" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "manu" 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 #21,350 for "manu". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "manu" and "min". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "manu" 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 #1,868,123 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "manu" and "min" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "manu 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 #1,868,123 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