# may vs MK

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### may
*verb · IPA /meɪ/ · frequency rank #110*
To be strong; to have power (over).

### MK
*name · frequency rank #13,383*
Initialism of Milton Keynes: a borough in Buckinghamshire, England; also the first part of the postcode for the area.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/may-vs-mk