mah
"mah" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,266) as a determiner. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,266
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pronunciation spelling of my.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mah · mah · English
mah · rank #21,266 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,266
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH luminous
Nearest frequency peer: luminous (-1 rank slots)
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “mah”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- logistical
logistical
78,738 corpus weight
- loophole
loophole
78,737 corpus weight
- luminous
luminous
78,736 corpus weight
- mah
mah
78,735 corpus weight
- malnutrition
malnutrition
78,733 corpus weight
- Maori
Maori
78,732 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “mah” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “mah”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mah is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "ME", …), not just typos; it is adeterminer. Frequency #21,266 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Pronunciation spelling of my.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mah, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "ME", "Mr", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is mah, spelled M-A-H.
Definition
- 1Pronunciation spelling of my.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Adventurer: 'AFTER YEARS OF ADVENTURING... I HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED AT THE STREETPASS ARENA. ONCE I REST MAH HOOFS, I'M GOING TO RECORD MY SECRET BATTLE TECHNIQUE.'
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).