# MfS vs my

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### MfS
*abbrev · IPA […] · frequency rank #26,968*
Ministerium für Staatssicherheit

### my
*pronoun · IPA [maɪ] · frequency rank #2,119*
possessives Personalpronomen für die 1. Person Singular; mein

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/mfs-vs-my