don't mention it
"don-t-mention-it" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“don't mention it” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A polite way of responding to thanks, by suggesting that the service is too trivial or humble to warrant thanks; you're welcome.
Corpus desk
Index EN-don-t-mention-it · don't mention it · English
don't mention it · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | don't mention it |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “don't mention it” in English
Rare enough to double-check
don't mention it is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
don't mention it doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is don't mention it, spelled D-O-N-'-T- -M-E-N-T-I-O-N- -I-T.
Definition
- 1A polite way of responding to thanks, by suggesting that the service is too trivial or humble to warrant thanks; you're welcome.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see don't, mention, it.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how don't mention it appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- Thank you for doing that. - Don't mention it.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.