Which to use
“meets” and “men's” are a confusable English pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,893
- “meets” frequency rank
- #3,245
- “men's” frequency rank
- 7138
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | meets | men's |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | plural of meet | possessive case of men: belonging to some or all male humans. |
Where the eye mixes meets and men's
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
A purely visual mix-up. meets (/miːts/) and men's (/mɛnz/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7138, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
meets is recorded at frequency rank #3,893, classified as anoun, pronounced /miːts/. men's is at rank #3,245, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mɛnz/.
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 7138, this pair ranks #508,400 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of meets vs men's
Shared letters: ems. Private to "meets": t. Private to "men's": n.
"meets" · 5 letters · shape CVVCC · "men's" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- meets ← emets · meest · meetss · meetts · metes · mmeets