Meson
[ˈmeːzɔn]
The verdict
“Meson” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teilchen mittlerer Masse, das aus einem Quark und einem Antiquark aufgebaut ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-meson · Meson · German
Meson · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meson |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmeːzɔn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Meson“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Meson is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmeːzɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Teilchen mittlerer Masse, das aus einem Quark und einem Antiquark aufgebaut ist".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Meson, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Meson, spelled M-E-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Teilchen mittlerer Masse, das aus einem Quark und einem Antiquark aufgebaut ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Meson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ein Meson ist ein instabiles Teilchen.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.