MedivsmesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#46,836
“Medi” frequency rank
#31,176
“mes” frequency rank
78012
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Medi mes
Definition September Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens mon

Letter map: Medi vs mes

Shared letters muted; letters that set Medi and mes apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
Medi
3 ch
mes

Part-of-speech tell for Medi / mes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Medi is anoun and mesanunknown. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 78012, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Medi is recorded at frequency rank #46,836, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. mes is at rank #31,176, tagged as anunknown, pronounced [me].

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 78012, this pair ranks #247,773 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Medi vs mes

Shared letters: em. Private to "Medi": di. Private to "mes": s.

"Medi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mes" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Mediemdi · mdei · meddi · meid · mmedi

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Medi" and "mes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Medi" is a noun and "mes" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Medi" or "mes" show up more?
"mes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,176 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.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "Medi" and "mes".

  • Full dictionary entry for "Medi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #247,773 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Medi" and "mes" 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 #247,773 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