Which to use
“meek” is an adjective and “meeker” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #19,136
- “meek” frequency rank
- #46,615
- “meeker” frequency rank
- 65751
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meek | meeker |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Humble, non-boastful, modest, meager, or self-effacing. | To break up and smooth soil with a harrow. |
Letter map: meek vs meeker
Shared letters muted; letters that set meek and meeker apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. meek runs 4 letters (CVVC) against meeker's 6 (CVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for meek / meeker
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meek is anadjective and meekeraverb. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “meek” sits inside “meeker”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65751, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meek is recorded at frequency rank #19,136, classified as anadj, pronounced /miːk/. meeker is at rank #46,615, tagged as averb.
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 65751, this pair ranks #71,282 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of meek vs meeker
Shared letters: ekm. Private to "meek": -. Private to "meeker": r.
"meek" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "meeker" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "meek" and "meeker" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "meek" vs "meeker" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "meek" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "meeker" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #71,282 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "meek" and "meeker" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "meeker vs Meijer". 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 #71,282 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.