Mais
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,409
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Mais is aGermannoun. It means: Botanik: Pronounced [maɪ̯s]. It ranks #9,409 in German word frequency. Often confused with MS and mit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mais |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maɪ̯s] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Mais is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɪ̯s]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,409 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for Mais, with forms such as "amis", "maiss", and "masi". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MS", "mit", "man", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Mais, spelled M-A-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Botanik:
- 2(ursprünglich aus Zentralamerika stammende) zu den Süßgräsern (Poaceae) zählende Getreidepflanze (Zea mays) von hohem Wuchs mit breiten, langen Blättern und einer am Gipfel befindlichen Rispe von Staubblüten, deren Fruchtstand aus großen, ringsum mit Körnern besetzten Kolben besteht und die als Nahrungsmittel sowie als Viehfutter verwendet wird
- 3Frucht der unter [1] beschriebenen Pflanze
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amis,maiss,masi,mias,mmais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Mais
Misspelling Variants of "Mais"
Frequency rank: #9,409 in German
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Nearby German words
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