Which to use
“mair” is an adjective and “Mawr” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,249
- “mair” frequency rank
- #48,889
- “Mawr” frequency rank
- 92138
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | mair | Mawr |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | more | A community (civil parish) in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. |
Letter map: mair vs Mawr
Shared letters muted; letters that set mair and Mawr apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. mair (CVVC) and Mawr (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Part-of-speech tell for mair / Mawr
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mair is anadjective and Mawraname. On the page they differ by a single letter - i in “mair” becomes w in “Mawr”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 92138, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
mair is recorded at frequency rank #43,249, classified as anadj, pronounced /mɛə/. Mawr is at rank #48,889, tagged as aname.
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 92138, this pair ranks #2,803 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of mair vs Mawr
Shared letters: amr. Private to "mair": i. Private to "Mawr": w.
"mair" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "Mawr" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "mair" and "Mawr" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "mair" vs "Mawr" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mair" and "Mawr".
- Full dictionary entry for "mair" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "Mawr" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #2,803 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "mair" and "Mawr" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marl vs Mawr". 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 #2,803 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.