mani
[ˈmaːni]
The verdict
“mani” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,519) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,519
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural des Substantivs mano
Corpus desk
Index DE-mani · mani · German
mani · rank #39,519 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,519
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mangelhaften
Nearest frequency peer: mangelhaften (-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 „mani“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- lächle
lächle
60,486 corpus weight
- Läuferinnen
Läuferinnen
60,485 corpus weight
- mangelhaften
mangelhaften
60,483 corpus weight
- mani
mani
60,482 corpus weight
- marxistisch…
marxistischen
60,480 corpus weight
- Maschinenfa…
Maschinenfabrik
60,479 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mani“ 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 | mani |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaːni] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mani“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mani is neighbouring look-alikes ("min", "may", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmaːni]. Frequency #39,519 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Plural des Substantivs mano".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mani, with forms such as "manni", "mmani", and "mnai". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "min", "may", "men", 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 mani, spelled M-A-N-I.
Definition
- 1Plural des Substantivs mano
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- manni
- mmani
- mnai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mani - 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 "mani", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).