mom
The verdict
“mom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,702) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,702
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Moment; warte mal kurz
Corpus desk
Index DE-mom · mom · German
mom · rank #10,702 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,702
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Mittelfeld
Nearest frequency peer: Mittelfeld (-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 „mom“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Mine
Mine
89,302 corpus weight
- mithalten
mithalten
89,301 corpus weight
- Mittelfeld
Mittelfeld
89,300 corpus weight
- mom
mom
89,299 corpus weight
- Momenten
Momenten
89,298 corpus weight
- montags
montags
89,297 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mom“ 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 | mom |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mom“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mom is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation. Frequency #10,702 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "ein Moment; warte mal kurz".
mom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is mom, spelled M-O-M.
Definition
- 1ein Moment; warte mal kurz
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mom appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
schick mal das pic
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); 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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).