Mc
The verdict
“Mc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,593) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,593
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moscovium
Corpus desk
Index DE-mc · Mc · German
Mc · rank #9,593 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,593
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Maschinenbau
Nearest frequency peer: Maschinenbau (-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 “Mc”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- LTE
LTE
90,411 corpus weight
- maps
maps
90,410 corpus weight
- Maschinenbau
Maschinenbau
90,409 corpus weight
- Mc
Mc
90,408 corpus weight
- Minimum
Minimum
90,407 corpus weight
- mobilen
mobilen
90,406 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mc” 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 | Mc |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #9,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “Mc” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mc is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "me", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #9,593 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Das chemische Symbol von Moscovium lautet Mc.
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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- "Mc" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "mm". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #9,593 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more German words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
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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.