Which to use
“made” and “meme” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #126
- “made” frequency rank
- #8,170
- “meme” frequency rank
- 8296
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | made | meme |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | A grub or maggot. | Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes. |
Where the eye mixes made and meme
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. made (/meːd/) and meme (/miːm/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 8296, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
made is recorded at frequency rank #126, classified as anoun, pronounced /meːd/. meme is at rank #8,170, tagged as anoun, pronounced /miːm/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 8296, this pair ranks #503,197 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of made vs meme
Shared letters: em. Private to "made": ad. Private to "meme": -.
"made" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "meme" · 4 letters · shape CVCV