English homophones
mee/mi
"mee" is a pronoun; "mi" is a noun - grammar picks the spelling, not sound. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Grammar picks the spelling
Same sound, different grammar: "mee" arrives as a pronoun, while "mi" is a noun. Once the sentence role is fixed, only one spelling fits.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- No shared spelling stem: "mee" is 3 letters, "mi" is 2; only the sound ties them.
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across mee, mi: m. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
mee
3 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVV
Inventory em · private e
mi
2 letters · 1 vowels · shape CV
Inventory im · private i
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "mee" when you mean: Obsolete spelling of me.
- Write "mi" when you mean: A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (mee, mi). Here's where to go from here.
- "mi" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #4,315 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: malaise · Malays. Nearby cluster
- Grammar often disambiguates this cluster, match the meaning to the part of speech before picking a spelling. Pick by meaning
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