minedvsMixerWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: mined is a adjective, Mixer is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mined” is an adjective and “Mixer” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,971
“mined” frequency rank
#15,001
“Mixer” frequency rank
31972
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mined Mixer
Definition That has been mined (in various senses). A surname.

Letter map: mined vs Mixer

Shared letters muted; letters that set mined and Mixer apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
mined
5 ch
Mixer

Part-of-speech tell for mined / Mixer

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mined is anadjective and Mixeraname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 31972, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mined is recorded at frequency rank #16,971, classified as anadj, pronounced /maɪnd/. Mixer is at rank #15,001, 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 31972, this pair ranks #341,657 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mined vs Mixer

Shared letters: eim. Private to "mined": dn. Private to "Mixer": rx.

"mined" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Mixer" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • minedimned · miend · minde · minned · mmined · mnied
  • Mixerimxer · miexr · mixerr · mixre · mixxer · mmixer · mxier

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mined" for "Mixer" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mined" is an adjective and "Mixer" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "mined" or "Mixer" show up more?
"Mixer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,001 in our English list, against #16,971 for "mined". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "mined" and "Mixer". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mined" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Mixer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #341,657 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mined" and "Mixer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mined vs miser". 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 #341,657 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