MedivsmelkTell them apart

Quick tell: Medi is a noun, melk is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#46,836
“Medi” frequency rank
#41,987
“melk” frequency rank
88823
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Medi melk
Definition September Milch gebend

Letter map: Medi vs melk

Shared letters muted; letters that set Medi and melk apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. Medi (CVCV) and melk (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
Medi
4 ch
melk

Grammar separator: Medi vs melk

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Medi is anoun and melkanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 88823, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Medi is recorded at frequency rank #46,836, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. melk is at rank #41,987, tagged as anadj, pronounced [mɛlk].

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 88823, this pair ranks #64,080 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Medi vs melk

Shared letters: em. Private to "Medi": di. Private to "melk": kl.

"Medi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "melk" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Medi ← emdi · mdei · meddi · meid · mmedi
  • melk ← emlk · mekl · melkk · mellk · mlek · mmelk

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Medi" for "melk" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Medi" is a noun and "melk" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Medi" or "melk" show up more?
"melk" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,987 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 "melk". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Medi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "melk" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #64,080 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Medi" and "melk" 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 #64,080 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