mar
[mɑːʳ]
The verdict
“mar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,521) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,521
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - etwas stören, beeinträchtigen, beschädigen, verderben, verunstalten
Corpus desk
Index DE-mar · mar · German
mar · rank #10,521 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,521
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH magische
Nearest frequency peer: magische (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mar”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lohnen
lohnen
89,483 corpus weight
- Lüneburg
Lüneburg
89,482 corpus weight
- magische
magische
89,481 corpus weight
- mar
mar
89,480 corpus weight
- Martina
Martina
89,479 corpus weight
- mechanische
mechanische
89,478 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mar” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mar |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mɑːʳ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “mar” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mar is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "me", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [mɑːʳ]. Frequency #10,521 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "etwas stören, beeinträchtigen, beschädigen, verderben, verunstalten".
mar has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "me", "my", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is mar, spelled M-A-R.
Definition
- 1etwas stören, beeinträchtigen, beschädigen, verderben, verunstalten
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "mar" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "mm". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #10,521 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.