Which to use
“meet” and “met” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #544
- “meet” frequency rank
- #853
- “met” frequency rank
- 1397
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meet | met |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | To make contact (with someone) while in proximity. | simple past and past participle of meet |
Where the eye mixes meet and met
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. meet (/miːt/) and met (/mɛt/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 1397, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meet is recorded at frequency rank #544, classified as averb, pronounced /miːt/. met is at rank #853, tagged as averb, pronounced /mɛt/.
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 1397, this pair ranks #527,521 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meet vs met
Shared letters: emt. Private to "meet": -. Private to "met": -.
"meet" · 4 letters · shape CVVC · "met" · 3 letters · shape CVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- meet ← emet · meett · mete · mmeet