# SMP vs SMS

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### SMP
*noun · frequency rank #41,382*
Initialism of statutory maternity pay (“payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work due to their pregnancy”).

### SMS
*name · IPA /ˌɛs ɛm ˈɛs/ · frequency rank #11,968*
Initialism of short message service: a system enabling cell phones to send or receive text messages.

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