# may vs my

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### 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/may-vs-my