mac
[mæk]
The verdict
“mac” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,810) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,810
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - weites Kleidungsstück mit Ärmeln, das mindestens bis zu den Knien reicht und wasserdicht ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-mac · mac · German
mac · rank #4,810 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,810
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Luxemburg
Nearest frequency peer: Luxemburg (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „mac“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- kräftig
kräftig
95,194 corpus weight
- lokal
lokal
95,193 corpus weight
- Luxemburg
Luxemburg
95,192 corpus weight
- mac
mac
95,191 corpus weight
- Maler
Maler
95,190 corpus weight
- Marken
Marken
95,189 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mac“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mac |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mæk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mac“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mac is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "me", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [mæk]. Frequency #4,810 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "weites Kleidungsstück mit Ärmeln, das mindestens bis zu den Knien reicht und wasserdicht ist".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mac, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "me", "my", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is mac, spelled M-A-C.
Definition
- 1weites Kleidungsstück mit Ärmeln, das mindestens bis zu den Knien reicht und wasserdicht ist
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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