# mem vs my

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### mem
*noun · IPA /mɛm/ · frequency rank #32,499*
The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

### 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: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mem-vs-my