male
[ˈmaːlə]
The verdict
“male” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,905) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,905
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs malen
Corpus desk
Index DE-male · male · German
male · rank #3,905 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,905
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH kürzlich
Nearest frequency peer: kürzlich (-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 „male“
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Konferenz
96,099 corpus weight
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96,098 corpus weight
- kürzlich
kürzlich
96,097 corpus weight
- male
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96,096 corpus weight
- massiv
massiv
96,095 corpus weight
- Mexiko
Mexiko
96,094 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „male“ 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 | male |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmaːlə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „male“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for male is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "ml", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈmaːlə]. Frequency #3,905 among 3,571 “M” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for male, with forms such as "amle", "mael", and "mlae". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "ml", "man", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is male, spelled M-A-L-E.
Definition
- 11. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs malen
- 21. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs malen
- 33. Person Singular Konjunktiv I Präsens Aktiv des Verbs malen
- 42. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs malen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amle
- mael
- mlae
- mmale
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of male - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).