mare
[mɛə]
The verdict
“mare” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,825) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,825
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stute
Corpus desk
Index DE-mare · mare · German
mare · rank #24,825 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,825
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Manieren
Nearest frequency peer: Manieren (-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 „mare“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Macho
Macho
75,179 corpus weight
- Malware
Malware
75,178 corpus weight
- Manieren
Manieren
75,177 corpus weight
- mare
mare
75,176 corpus weight
- Markierungen
Markierungen
75,175 corpus weight
- Marl
Marl
75,174 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mare“ 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 | mare |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɛə] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mare“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mare is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [mɛə]. Frequency #24,825 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Stute".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mare, with forms such as "maer", "marre", and "mmare". 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, "me", "Mr", "mir", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is mare, spelled M-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Stute
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Go and get my black horse and saddle up my gray mare I'm goin' home to my good gal, she's in the world somewhere - (Blind Lemon Jefferson)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- maer
- marre
- mmare
- mrae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mare - 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).