meetsvsmesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#27,844
“meets” frequency rank
#31,176
“mes” frequency rank
59020
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meets mes
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs meet Plural Maskulinum des Pronomens mon

Letter map: meets vs mes

Shared letters muted; letters that set meets and mes apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
meets
3 ch
mes

Role in the sentence - meets and mes

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meets is averb and mesanunknown. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59020, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meets is recorded at frequency rank #27,844, classified as averb, 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 59020, this pair ranks #840,386 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of meets vs mes

Shared letters: ems. Private to "meets": t. Private to "mes": -.

"meets" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "mes" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meetsemets · meest · meetss · meetts · metes · mets · mmeets

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "meets" and "mes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meets" is a verb and "mes" an unknown, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "meets" or "mes" show up more?
"meets" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,844 in our German list, against #31,176 for "mes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "meets" vs "mes" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meets" 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 #840,386 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meets" and "mes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Mals vs mes". 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 #840,386 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