Mg
The verdict
“Mg” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,394) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,394
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Magnesium
Corpus desk
Index DE-mg · Mg · German
Mg · rank #5,394 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,394
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Marine
Nearest frequency peer: Marine (-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 „Mg“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- konservativ…
konservativen
94,610 corpus weight
- Lukas
Lukas
94,609 corpus weight
- Marine
Marine
94,608 corpus weight
- Mg
Mg
94,607 corpus weight
- militärisch…
militärischen
94,606 corpus weight
- Missbrauch
Missbrauch
94,605 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Mg“ 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 | Mg |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Mg“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mg is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "my", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #5,394 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Magnesium".
Zero misspellings are on record for Mg in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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 carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Mg, spelled M-G.
Definition
- 1Magnesium
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Inhalt: 3 g Mg
Mg → Mg²⁺ + 2 e⁻
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.