Which to use
“mailer” is a noun and “maimed” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #31,248
- “mailer” frequency rank
- #36,651
- “maimed” frequency rank
- 67899
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mailer | maimed |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | One who sends mail. | Partially or wholly deprived of the use of some part of the body, usually by wounding or injury. |
Letter map: mailer vs maimed
Shared letters muted; letters that set mailer and maimed apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. mailer and maimed follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for mailer / maimed
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mailer is anoun and maimedanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67899, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mailer is recorded at frequency rank #31,248, classified as anoun. maimed is at rank #36,651, tagged as anadj, pronounced /meɪmd/.
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 67899, this pair ranks #61,305 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mailer vs maimed
Shared letters: aeim. Private to "mailer": lr. Private to "maimed": d.
"mailer" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "maimed" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "mailer" for "maimed" ever safe?
Frequency check: "mailer" vs "maimed" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mailer" and "maimed".
- Full dictionary entry for "mailer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "maimed" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #61,305 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mailer" and "maimed" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maim vs maimed". 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 #61,305 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.