meint
[maɪ̯nt]
The verdict
“meint” has 7 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #1,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,164
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs meinen
Corpus desk
Index DE-meint · meint · German
meint · rank #1,164 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,164
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH lieben
Nearest frequency peer: lieben (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „meint“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Jungs
Jungs
98,840 corpus weight
- Leistung
Leistung
98,839 corpus weight
- lieben
lieben
98,838 corpus weight
- meint
meint
98,837 corpus weight
- meinte
meinte
98,836 corpus weight
- Montag
Montag
98,835 corpus weight
What this shows „meint“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | meint |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [maɪ̯nt] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „meint“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around meint (IPA [maɪ̯nt]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,164 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for meint, with forms such as "emint", "meinnt", and "meintt". 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, "mit", "min", "men", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is meint, spelled M-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Präsens Imperativ Aktiv des Verbs meinen
- 23. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens des Verbs meinen
- 32. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens des Verbs meinen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emint
- meinnt
- meintt
- meitn
- menit
- mient
- mmeint
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meint - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meint", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).