[mɛɪ̯l]
The verdict
“Mail” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,814) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,814
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - E-Mail
Corpus desk
Index DE-mail · Mail · German
Mail · rank #1,814 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,814
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Küche
Nearest frequency peer: Küche (-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 „Mail“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- hoffen
hoffen
98,190 corpus weight
- Israel
Israel
98,189 corpus weight
- Küche
Küche
98,188 corpus weight
- Mail
Mail
98,187 corpus weight
- Masse
Masse
98,186 corpus weight
- melden
melden
98,185 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Mail“ 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 | |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɛɪ̯l] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Mail“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mail is neighbouring look-alikes ("ml", "mit", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [mɛɪ̯l]. Frequency #1,814 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "E-Mail".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mail, with forms such as "amil", "maill", and "mial". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ml", "mit", "man", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Mail, spelled M-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1E-Mail
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Ermittler stießen auf dieses Datum, nachdem auch ihnen die Mails in Kopie anonym zugeschickt worden waren.“
„Die Mail endet mit dem Angebot, eine merkwürdige Geschichte über die Liaison von Informant und Redaktion könne exklusiv erworben werden.“
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amil
- maill
- mial
- mmail
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mail - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mail", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).