# BMP vs by

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### BMP
*name · frequency rank #42,550*
Initialism of Basic Multilingual Plane, one of the sets of character codepoints in Unicode, formally known as Plane 0; the conventional full set of all characters in basic Unicode, using the 65,536-codepoint range from U+0000 through U+FFFF.

### by
*preposition · IPA /baɪ/ · frequency rank #24*
Near or next to.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bmp-vs-by