Which to use
“mailed” is a verb and “mired” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #14,991
- “mailed” frequency rank
- #36,669
- “mired” frequency rank
- 51660
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mailed | mired |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of mail | A unit of measurement for color temperature. |
Letter map: mailed vs mired
Shared letters muted; letters that set mailed and mired apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. mailed runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against mired's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Role in the sentence - mailed and mired
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mailed is averb and miredanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51660, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mailed is recorded at frequency rank #14,991, classified as averb, pronounced /meɪld/. mired is at rank #36,669, tagged as anoun.
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 51660, this pair ranks #163,592 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of mailed vs mired
Shared letters: deim. Private to "mailed": al. Private to "mired": r.
"mailed" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "mired" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've compared "mailed" and "mired". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "mailed" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "mired" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #163,592 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mailed" and "mired" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mired vs miser". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #163,592 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.