MedivsmüdeTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#46,836
“Medi” frequency rank
#2,604
“müde” frequency rank
49440
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Medi müde
Definition September schläfrig, schlafbedürftig

Letter map: Medi vs müde

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

4 ch
Medi
4 ch
müde

Role in the sentence - Medi and müde

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Medi is anoun and müdeanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49440, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Medi is recorded at frequency rank #46,836, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. müde is at rank #2,604, tagged as anadj, pronounced [ˈmyːdə].

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 49440, this pair ranks #1,211,441 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Medi vs müde

Shared letters: dem. Private to "Medi": i. Private to "müde": ü.

"Medi" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "müde" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Mediemdi · mdei · meddi · meid · mmedi

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Medi" for "müde" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Medi" is a noun and "müde" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "Medi" or "müde" show up more?
"müde" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,604 in our German list, against #46,836 for "Medi". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "Medi" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "müde" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,211,441 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Medi" and "müde" 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 #1,211,441 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