meavsMESZTell them apart

Quick tell: mea is a pronoun, MESZ is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mea” is a pronoun and “MESZ” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,498
“mea” frequency rank
#30,200
“MESZ” frequency rank
66698
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mea MESZ
Definition Possessivpronomen der 1. Person Singular ‚mein‘, ‚meine‘ Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit

Letter map: mea vs MESZ

Shared letters muted; letters that set mea and MESZ apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

3 ch
mea
4 ch
MESZ

Role in the sentence - mea and MESZ

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mea is apronoun and MESZanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66698, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mea is recorded at frequency rank #36,498, classified as apron, pronounced [ˈmea]. MESZ is at rank #30,200, tagged as anabbrev.

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 66698, this pair ranks #564,510 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mea vs MESZ

Shared letters: em. Private to "mea": a. Private to "MESZ": sz.

"mea" · 3 letters · shape CVV  ·  "MESZ" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • MESZemsz · messz · meszz · mezs · mmesz · msez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mea" for "MESZ" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mea" is a pronoun and "MESZ" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "mea" or "MESZ" show up more?
"MESZ" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,200 in our German list, against #36,498 for "mea". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "mea" and "MESZ". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mea" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "MESZ" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #564,510 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mea" and "MESZ" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mea vs mora". 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 #564,510 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