Mary vs mas, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#4,536
“Mary” frequency rank: #17,981
“mas” frequency rank: 22517
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Mary	mas
Definition	weiblicher Vorname	der Bauernhof, das Bauernhaus

Letter map: Mary vs mas

Shared letters muted; letters that set Mary and mas apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

Mary

3 ch

mas

Part-of-speech tell for Mary / mas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Mary is aname and masanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22517, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Mary is recorded at frequency rank #4,536, classified as aname, pronounced […]. mas is at rank #17,981, tagged as anoun, pronounced [mas].

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 22517, this pair ranks #1,873,226 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Mary vs mas

Shared letters: am. Private to "Mary": ry. Private to "mas": s.

"Mary" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "mas" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

Mary ← amry · marry · maryy · mmary · mray

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Mary" and "mas" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Mary" is a name and "mas" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "Mary" vs "mas" - which ranks higher?

"Mary" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,536 in our German list, against #17,981 for "mas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "Mary" and "mas". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "Mary" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "mas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,873,226 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Mary" and "mas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Mals vs mas". 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 #1,873,226 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.