mei
[ˈmeʔi]
The verdict
“mei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,695) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,695
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - meine, die meinen/meinigen mit Bezug auf mehrere vorher erwähnte Objekte oder Personen
Corpus desk
Index DE-mei · mei · German
mei · rank #10,695 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,695
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Massaker
Nearest frequency peer: Massaker (-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 „mei“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- manipuliert
manipuliert
89,309 corpus weight
- Massaker
Massaker
89,307 corpus weight
- mei
mei
89,306 corpus weight
- merkst
merkst
89,305 corpus weight
- metro
metro
89,304 corpus weight
- Milliarde
Milliarde
89,303 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mei“ 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 | mei |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmeʔi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mei“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mei is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "my", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmeʔi]. Frequency #10,695 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "meine, die meinen/meinigen mit Bezug auf mehrere vorher erwähnte Objekte oder Personen".
No misspelling variants are generated for mei in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "my", "Mr", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is mei, spelled M-E-I.
Definition
- 1meine, die meinen/meinigen mit Bezug auf mehrere vorher erwähnte Objekte oder Personen
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mei appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Me vidas tua imaji, ma ne vidas mei.
Me vidas tua imaji, ma mein ne vidas.
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).