museovsmutetWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#45,466
“museo” frequency rank
#39,536
“mutet” frequency rank
85002
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature museo mutet
Definition Museum n 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs muten

Letter map: museo vs mutet

Shared letters muted; letters that set museo and mutet apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
museo
5 ch
mutet

Grammar separator: museo vs mutet

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: museo is anoun and mutetaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85002, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

museo is recorded at frequency rank #45,466, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. mutet is at rank #39,536, tagged as averb, pronounced [ˈmuːtət].

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 85002, this pair ranks #114,953 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of museo vs mutet

Shared letters: emu. Private to "museo": os. Private to "mutet": t.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • museommuseo · msueo · mueso · musoe · musseo · umseo
  • mutetmmutet · mtuet · muett · mutett · mutte · muttet · umtet

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "museo" and "mutet" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "museo" is a noun and "mutet" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "museo" or "mutet"?
"mutet" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #39,536 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.

Useful next steps

Pair "museo" vs "mutet" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "museo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mutet" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #114,953 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "museo" and "mutet" 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 #114,953 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