meervsMehrConfusable pair

Quick tell: meer is a noun, Mehr is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“meer” is a noun and “Mehr” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#45,507
“meer” frequency rank
#48,349
“Mehr” frequency rank
93856
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature meer Mehr
Definition A boundary. The seventh solar month of the Persian calendar.

Letter map: meer vs Mehr

Shared letters muted; letters that set meer and Mehr apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. meer (CVVC) and Mehr (CVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
meer
4 ch
Mehr

Part-of-speech tell for meer / Mehr

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: meer is anoun and Mehraname. On the page they differ by a single letter - e in “meer” becomes h in “Mehr”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 93856, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

meer is recorded at frequency rank #45,507, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈmɪə(ɹ)/. Mehr is at rank #48,349, 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 93856, this pair ranks #1,648 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of meer vs Mehr

Shared letters: emr. Private to "meer": -. Private to "Mehr": h.

"meer" · 4 letters · shape CVVC  ·  "Mehr" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meer ← emer · meerr · mmeer
  • Mehr ← emhr · mehhr · mehrr · merh · mher · mmehr

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "meer" and "Mehr" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "meer" is a noun and "Mehr" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "meer" or "Mehr"?
"meer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #45,507 in our English list, against #48,349 for "Mehr". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "meer" vs "Mehr" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "meer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Mehr" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,648 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "meer" and "Mehr" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Mehr vs mela". 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 #1,648 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list