muh
[muː]
The verdict
“muh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,176) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,176
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - muh ist der besondere Tierlaut der Kuh
Corpus desk
Index DE-muh · muh · German
muh · rank #32,176 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,176
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH morgendlichen
Nearest frequency peer: morgendlichen (-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 „muh“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- morgendlich…
morgendlichen
67,826 corpus weight
- muh
muh
67,825 corpus weight
- nachgesehen
nachgesehen
67,824 corpus weight
- nachschlagen
nachschlagen
67,823 corpus weight
- nachvollzie…
nachvollziehbare
67,822 corpus weight
- NADA
NADA
67,821 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „muh“ 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 | muh |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [muː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „muh“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for muh is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "MW", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [muː]. Frequency #32,176 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "muh ist der besondere Tierlaut der Kuh".
No misspelling variants are generated for muh in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "MW", "Mut", 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 muh, spelled M-U-H.
Definition
- 1muh ist der besondere Tierlaut der Kuh
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how muh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Kuh macht muh!, wie andere Tiere andere Laute machen.
Muh! Kühe fehlen auf kaum einem Bauernhof. Seit ewigen Zeiten liefern sie Fleisch und Milch.
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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