mus
[muːs]
The verdict
“mus” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,072) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,072
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
Corpus desk
Index DE-mus · mus · German
mus · rank #22,072 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,072
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Motorhaube
Nearest frequency peer: Motorhaube (-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 „mus“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Morgenstern
Morgenstern
77,932 corpus weight
- mother
mother
77,931 corpus weight
- Motorhaube
Motorhaube
77,930 corpus weight
- mus
mus
77,929 corpus weight
- musikalisch…
musikalisches
77,928 corpus weight
- mögt
mögt
77,927 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „mus“ 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 | mus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [muːs] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „mus“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mus is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "MW", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [muːs]. Frequency #22,072 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen".
No misspelling variants are generated for mus in our index, 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is mus, spelled M-U-S.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
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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