meetsvsMetteTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#27,844
“meets” frequency rank
#47,587
“Mette” frequency rank
75431
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meets Mette
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs meet christliche Liturgie, die spätabends, nachts oder frühmorgens stattfindet

Letter map: meets vs Mette

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

5 ch
meets
5 ch
Mette

Part-of-speech tell for meets / Mette

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meets is averb and Metteanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 75431, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meets is recorded at frequency rank #27,844, classified as averb, pronounced […]. Mette is at rank #47,587, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈmɛtə].

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 75431, this pair ranks #308,182 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of meets vs Mette

Shared letters: emt. Private to "meets": s. Private to "Mette": -.

"meets" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC  ·  "Mette" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meetsemets · meest · meetss · meetts · metes · mets · mmeets
  • Metteemtte · metet · mmette · mtete

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "meets" and "Mette" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meets" is a verb and "Mette" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "meets" or "Mette" show up more?
"meets" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,844 in our German list, against #47,587 for "Mette". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "meets" vs "Mette" 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 "Mette" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #308,182 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meets" and "Mette" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Matze vs Mette". 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 #308,182 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