mäh
[mɛː]
The verdict
“mäh” is uncommon German (frequency #69,522 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,522
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tierlaut des Schafes und der Ziege
Corpus desk
Index DE-mah · mäh · German
mäh · rank #69,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,522
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Musikgeschäft
Nearest frequency peer: Musikgeschäft (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „mäh“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Mosul
Mosul
30,483 corpus weight
- Mountainbik…
Mountainbikes
30,482 corpus weight
- Musikgeschä…
Musikgeschäft
30,480 corpus weight
- mäh
mäh
30,479 corpus weight
- Mülldeponie
Mülldeponie
30,477 corpus weight
- mündig
mündig
30,476 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „mäh“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mäh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [mɛː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #69,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „mäh“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
mäh is uncommon German at frequency #69,522 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [mɛː]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Definition
- 1Tierlaut des Schafes und der Ziege
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mäh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Abends, als es Zeit war heimzugehen, fragte er [der älteste Sohn]: ‚Ziege, bist du satt?‘ Die Ziege antwortete: ‚Ich bin so satt, ich mag kein Blatt: mäh! mäh!‘ “
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This word in other languages
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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