mäh

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for mäh is 3 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mɛː]. Corpus data places it at rank #69,522 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tierlaut des Schafes und der Ziege".

mäh has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is mäh, spelled M-Ä-H.