meines
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,137
in German word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
meines is anGermanunknown. It means: Genitiv Singular Maskulinum des Possessivpronomens mein Pronounced [ˈmaɪ̯nəs]. It ranks #1,137 in German word frequency. Often confused with mies and Mine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meines |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | [ˈmaɪ̯nəs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for meines is 6 letters long, classified as anunknown, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɪ̯nəs]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,137 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for meines, with forms such as "emines", "meiens", and "meiness". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mies", "Mine", "mens", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is meines, spelled M-E-I-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular Maskulinum des Possessivpronomens mein
- 2Genitiv Singular Neutrum des Possessivpronomens mein
- 3Nominativ Singular Neutrum bei nicht attributivem Gebrauch des Possessivpronomens mein
- 4Akkusativ Singular Neutrum bei nicht attributivem Gebrauch des Possessivpronomens mein
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emines,meiens,meiness,meinnes,meinse,menies,mienes,mmeines
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for meines
Misspelling Variants of "meines"
Frequency rank: #1,137 in German
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Nearby German words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our German index: