Muff
[mʊf]
The verdict
“Muff” is uncommon German (frequency #55,561 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,561
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine Hülle aus Pelz oder gefüttertem Stoff zum Wärmen oder Warmhalten der Hände
Corpus desk
Index DE-muff · Muff · German
Muff · rank #55,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,561
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Moralapostel
Nearest frequency peer: Moralapostel (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Muff“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Missständen
Missständen
44,445 corpus weight
- mitnahm
mitnahm
44,444 corpus weight
- Monsun
Monsun
44,442 corpus weight
- Moralapostel
Moralapostel
44,441 corpus weight
- Muff
Muff
44,440 corpus weight
- Musikkapelle
Musikkapelle
44,438 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Muff“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Muff |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mʊf] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Muff“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Muff is uncommon German at frequency #55,561 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [mʊf]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine Hülle aus Pelz oder gefüttertem Stoff zum Wärmen oder Warmhalten der Hände".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Muff, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Muff, spelled M-U-F-F.
Definition
- 1eine Hülle aus Pelz oder gefüttertem Stoff zum Wärmen oder Warmhalten der Hände
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Muff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Früher wurden Muffe nicht nur von Frauen getragen.
„Das Räubermädchen betrachtete sie ganz ernsthaft, nickte ein wenig mit dem Kopfe und sagte: ‚Sie sollen Dich nicht schlachten, selbst wenn ich Dir böse werde, dann werde ich es schon selbst thun!‘ und dann trocknete sie Gretchens Augen und steckte ihre beiden Hände in den schönen Muff, der weich und warm war.“
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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