Mc
The verdict
“Mc” is a regularly-used German word, ranked #9,593 in German word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #9,593
- frequency rank, German
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Moscovium
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 | Mc |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mc” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Mc is 2 letters long, classified as an abbreviation. Corpus data places it at rank #9,593 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Moscovium".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mc, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Mc, spelled M-C.
Definition
- 1Moscovium
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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Using “Mc”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “mm” - see the side-by-side comparison. Mc vs mm
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
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.