must
[muːst]
The verdict
“must” has 5 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #11,712. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,712
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
Corpus desk
Index DE-must · must · German
must · rank #11,712 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,712
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Movie
Nearest frequency peer: Movie (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “must”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Monaco
Monaco
88,292 corpus weight
- morden
morden
88,291 corpus weight
- Movie
Movie
88,290 corpus weight
- must
must
88,289 corpus weight
- Mönch
Mönch
88,288 corpus weight
- nachweisbar
nachweisbar
88,287 corpus weight
What this shows “must” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | must |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [muːst] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “must” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around must (IPA [muːst]), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,712 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for must, with forms such as "mmust", "msut", and "mustt". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mut", "Mute", "Mutti", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is must, spelled M-U-S-T.
Definition
- 12. Person Plural Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
- 22. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
- 33. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
- 42. Person Plural Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs musen
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmust
- msut
- mustt
- muts
- umst
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of must - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "must", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).