mingledvsmintedConfusable pair

Quick tell: mingled is a verb, minted is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mingled” is a verb and “minted” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#34,197
“mingled” frequency rank
#29,379
“minted” frequency rank
63576
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mingled minted
Definition simple past and past participle of mingle made into coinage; coined

Letter map: mingled vs minted

Shared letters muted; letters that set mingled and minted apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch
mingled
6 ch
minted

Part-of-speech tell for mingled / minted

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mingled is averb and mintedanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 63576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mingled is recorded at frequency rank #34,197, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈmɪŋɡl̩d/. minted is at rank #29,379, tagged as anadj.

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 63576, this pair ranks #82,212 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mingled vs minted

Shared letters: deimn. Private to "mingled": gl. Private to "minted": t.

"mingled" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVC  ·  "minted" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mingledimngled · mignled · mingeld · minggled · minglde · mingledd · minglled · minlged
  • mintedimnted · minetd · minnted · mintde · mintedd · mintted · mitned · mminted

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mingled" and "minted" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mingled" is a verb and "minted" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "mingled" vs "minted" - which ranks higher?
"minted" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,379 in our English list, against #34,197 for "mingled". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mingled" and "minted".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mingled" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "minted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #82,212 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mingled" and "minted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "miffed vs minted". 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 #82,212 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