mu
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The verdict
“mu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,336) as an unknown. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,336
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genitiv Singular des Personalpronomens mina
Corpus desk
Index DE-mu · mu · German
mu · rank #18,336 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,336
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Monsieur
Nearest frequency peer: Monsieur (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mu”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- mitgewirkt
mitgewirkt
81,668 corpus weight
- mobilisieren
mobilisieren
81,667 corpus weight
- Monsieur
Monsieur
81,666 corpus weight
- mu
mu
81,665 corpus weight
- Multimedia
Multimedia
81,664 corpus weight
- mündlich
mündlich
81,663 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mu” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #18,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “mu” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mu is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "MW", …), not just typos; it is anunknown pronounced […]. Frequency #18,336 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Genitiv Singular des Personalpronomens mina".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mu, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "MW", "Mut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is mu, spelled M-U.
Definition
- 1Genitiv Singular des Personalpronomens mina
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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- "mu" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "my". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #18,336 among German headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.