megvsmmWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: meg is a adverb, mm is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“meg” is an adverb and “mm” is an abbrev - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,681
“meg” frequency rank
#1,186
“mm” frequency rank
32867
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meg mm
Definition Präteritum: kennzeichnet eine Handlung als abgeschlossen Einheitensymbol für Millimeter

Letter map: meg vs mm

Shared letters muted; letters that set meg and mm apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
meg
2 ch
mm

Part-of-speech tell for meg / mm

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meg is anadverb and mmanabbrev. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32867, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meg is recorded at frequency rank #31,681, classified as anadv, pronounced [mɛɡ]. mm is at rank #1,186, tagged as anabbrev.

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 32867, this pair ranks #1,698,308 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of meg vs mm

Shared letters: m. Private to "meg": eg. Private to "mm": -.

"meg" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "mm" · 2 letters · shape CC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "meg" and "mm" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meg" is an adverb and "mm" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "meg" or "mm" show up more?
"mm" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,186 in our German list, against #31,681 for "meg". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "meg" and "mm". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meg" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mm" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,698,308 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meg" and "mm" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meg vs mme". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,698,308 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