mean
[mi(ː)n]
The verdict
“mean” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,306) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,306
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - das Ergebnis der Division einer Summe von Zahlen durch deren Anzahl
Corpus desk
Index DE-mean · mean · German
mean · rank #19,306 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,306
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Masern
Nearest frequency peer: Masern (-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 „mean“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- mall
mall
80,698 corpus weight
- Marquis
Marquis
80,697 corpus weight
- Masern
Masern
80,696 corpus weight
- mean
mean
80,695 corpus weight
- medizinisch…
medizinisches
80,694 corpus weight
- Meiningen
Meiningen
80,693 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mean“ 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 | mean |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mi(ː)n] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mean“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mean is neighbouring look-alikes ("min", "men", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [mi(ː)n]. Frequency #19,306 among 3,571 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mean, with forms such as "eman", "meann", and "mena". 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, "min", "men", "Mia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is mean, spelled M-E-A-N.
Definition
- 1das Ergebnis der Division einer Summe von Zahlen durch deren Anzahl
- 2die Mitte zwischen Gegensätzen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eman
- meann
- mena
- mmean
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mean - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).