# mal vs my

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### mal
*noun · IPA /mæl/ · frequency rank #13,953*
illness, affliction.

### my
*determiner · IPA /maɪ/ · frequency rank #27*
First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mal-vs-my