müdenvsmuseoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: müden is a adjective, museo is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“müden” is an adjective and “museo” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#27,858
“müden” frequency rank
#45,466
“museo” frequency rank
73324
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature müden museo
Definition Genitiv Singular Maskulinum der starken Deklination des Positivs des Adjektivs müde Museum n

Letter map: müden vs museo

Shared letters muted; letters that set müden and museo apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. müden (CVCVC) and museo (CVCVV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
müden
5 ch
museo

Grammar separator: müden vs museo

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: müden is anadjective and museoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73324, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

müden is recorded at frequency rank #27,858, classified as anadj, pronounced [ˈmyːdn̩]. museo is at rank #45,466, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

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 73324, this pair ranks #363,459 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of müden vs museo

Shared letters: em. Private to "müden": dnü. Private to "museo": osu.

"müden" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "museo" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • museo ← mmuseo · msueo · mueso · musoe · musseo · umseo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "müden" for "museo" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "müden" is an adjective and "museo" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "müden" or "museo" show up more?
"müden" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,858 in our German list, against #45,466 for "museo". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "müden" and "museo".

  • Full dictionary entry for "müden" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "museo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #363,459 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "müden" and "museo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "museo vs puzzles". 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 #363,459 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