How to say "mix" in Japanese

• 混ぜるまぜるJLPT N2approx.Common
  ichidan verb, transitive verbThe verb for the act of mixing: combining things by stirring or blending them together. Think of cooking and other hands-on mixing of ingredients.
  水みずを加くわえ、練り粉ねりこがどろどろしない程度ていどに混まぜなさい。↗

  Add water and mix to a firm dough.
• ミックスCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe English loanword, used chiefly as a noun meaning a mixture or a blend. When you want to describe stirring ingredients together, the verb 混ぜる is the natural choice.
• 交えるまじえるJLPT N1approx.Common
  ichidan verb, transitive verbTo mix something in with something else, or to include an element — blending humor or emotion into one's words, for instance. The emphasis falls on combining rather than on physical stirring.
  その詩しは韻文いんぶんに散文さんぶんをまじえている。↗

  That poem mixes prose with poetry.
• 溶くとくJLPT N2approx.Common
  godan verb, transitive verbTo blend something into a liquid until it dissolves — mixing flour with water, dissolving salt, dissolving paint. It covers this dissolving kind of mixing rather than mixing in general.
• 入り混じるいりまじるCommon
  godan verb, intransitive verbIntransitive: things are mixed or mingled together, with no one doing the mixing — people, objects, or qualities blending into one another. Use it for the state of being mixed, not for the act of mixing.
  町田まちだは古ふるいものと新あたらしいものが入り交いりまじった面白おもしろい街まちです。↗

  Machida is an interesting city that's a mix of the old and the new.

Use 「混ぜる」 for mixing or stirring things together, 「溶く」 for dissolving something into liquid, 「交える」 for mixing an element in, 「入り混じる」 for things being mingled without an agent, and 「ミックス」 as the loanword noun for a mixture.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 混ぜるまぜるto mix
• ミックスmix
• 交えるまじえるto mix
• 溶くとくto mix (e.g. water with flour)
• 入り交じるいりまじるto mix (with)
• 混ぜ合わせるまぜあわせるto mix
• かき混ぜるかきまぜるto mix
• 取り混ぜるとりまぜるto mix
• 入れ交ぜるいれまぜるto mix
• ごったconfusion
• ない交ぜにするないまぜにするto blend (e.g. fact and fiction)
• こね回すこねまわすto knead
• こね返すこねかえすto knead
• 合するがっするto join together
• 合すがっすto join together
• 掛け合わせるかけあわせるto mix (e.g. paint colours)
• ない交ぜるないまぜるto mix
• ぶっこむto mix
• 一緒にするいっしょにするto put together
• 合わせるあわせるto mix
• 合わすあわすto mix
• 元もと(raw) material