MedivsmeideWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: Medi is a noun, meide is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Medi” is a noun and “meide” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,836
“Medi” frequency rank
#38,897
“meide” frequency rank
85733
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Medi meide
Definition September 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs meiden

Letter map: Medi vs meide

Shared letters muted; letters that set Medi and meide apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Medi runs 4 letters (CVCV) against meide's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
Medi
5 ch
meide

Part-of-speech tell for Medi / meide

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Medi is anoun and meideaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85733, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Medi is recorded at frequency rank #46,836, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. meide is at rank #38,897, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈmaɪ̯də].

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 85733, this pair ranks #103,923 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Medi vs meide

Shared letters: deim. Private to "Medi": -. Private to "meide": -.

"Medi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "meide" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Medi ← emdi · mdei · meddi · meid · mmedi
  • meide ← emide · medie · meidde · meied · miede · mmeide

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Medi" and "meide" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Medi" is a noun and "meide" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Medi" vs "meide" - which ranks higher?
"meide" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,897 in our German list, against #46,836 for "Medi". 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 "Medi" and "meide". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Medi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "meide" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #103,923 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Medi" and "meide" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Medi 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 #103,923 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