Mäuschen
[ˈmɔɪ̯sçən]
The verdict
“Mäuschen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #38,910. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,910
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kleine, niedliche Maus
Corpus desk
Index DE-mauschen · Mäuschen · German
Mäuschen · rank #38,910 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,910
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Männerchor
Nearest frequency peer: Männerchor (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Mäuschen“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Muskelkraft
Muskelkraft
61,093 corpus weight
- Männerchor
Männerchor
61,092 corpus weight
- Mäuschen
Mäuschen
61,091 corpus weight
- mörderischen
mörderischen
61,090 corpus weight
- Mörser
Mörser
61,089 corpus weight
- Müritz
Müritz
61,088 corpus weight
What this shows „Mäuschen“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Mäuschen |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmɔɪ̯sçən] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Mäuschen“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Mäuschen (IPA [ˈmɔɪ̯sçən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,910 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mäuschen, with forms such as "mmäuschen", "muäschen", and "mäsuchen". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "München", "mischen", "Muschel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is Mäuschen, spelled M-Ä-U-S-C-H-E-N.
Definition
- 1kleine, niedliche Maus
- 2Kosename
- 3Musikantenknochen, stoßempfindliche Stelle am Ellenbogen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mäuschen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich habe vorhin ein ganz putziges Mäuschen gesehen.
„Es waren einmal ein Mäuschen, ein Vögelchen und eine Bratwurst in Gesellschaft gerathen, hatten einen Haushalt geführt, lange wohl und köstlich im Frieden gelebt, und trefflich an Gütern zugenommen.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmäuschen
- muäschen
- mäsuchen
- mäucshen
- mäuscchen
- mäuscehn
- mäuschenn
- mäuschhen
- mäuschne
- mäushcen
- mäusschen
- ämuschen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mäuschen - 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 "Mäuschen", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).