MfS
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The verdict
“MfS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,968) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,968
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
Corpus desk
Index DE-mfs · MfS · German
MfS · rank #26,968 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,968
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meran
Nearest frequency peer: Meran (-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 „MfS“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Masterplan
Masterplan
73,037 corpus weight
- Menschenbild
Menschenbild
73,035 corpus weight
- Meran
Meran
73,034 corpus weight
- MfS
MfS
73,033 corpus weight
- Mitläufer
Mitläufer
73,031 corpus weight
- Mitteldeuts…
Mitteldeutschen
73,030 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „MfS“ 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 | MfS |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „MfS“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MfS is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "my", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced […]. Frequency #26,968 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit".
Zero misspellings are on record for MfS in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "my", "Mr", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is MfS, spelled M-F-S.
Definition
- 1Ministerium für Staatssicherheit
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MfS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Die Staatssicherheit wurde zum historischen Sündenbock erklärt. Jeder kennt die Rede vom ‚Schild und Schwert der Partei‘, das MfS war Schild und Schwert, die SED die Partei, also Arm, Hand und Kopf, die das Schwert führten.“
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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