# MENA vs mex

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### MENA
*name · frequency rank #29,736*
Initialism of Middle East News Agency, a news agency based in Cairo, established in 1955, nationalized and affiliated to the Egyptian Ministry of Information in 1960.

### mex
*noun · frequency rank #30,134*
The mex of a subset of a well-ordered set is the smallest value from the whole set that does not belong to the subset.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mena-vs-mex