Which to use
“mehr” is a pronoun and “mei” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #61
- “mehr” frequency rank
- #10,695
- “mei” frequency rank
- 10756
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mehr | mei |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | über viel hinausgehend; eine bestimmte Anzahl/Menge übersteigend | meine, die meinen/meinigen mit Bezug auf mehrere vorher erwähnte Objekte oder Personen |
Where the eye mixes mehr and mei
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mehr is [meːɐ̯] while mei is [ˈmeʔi]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (pronoun vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10756, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mehr is recorded at frequency rank #61, classified as apron, pronounced [meːɐ̯]. mei is at rank #10,695, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈmeʔi].
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 10756, this pair ranks #1,973,481 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of mehr vs mei
Shared letters: em. Private to "mehr": hr. Private to "mei": i.
"mehr" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "mei" · 3 letters · shape CVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- mehr ← emhr · mehhr · mehrr · merh · mher · mmehr