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me

/mi/pronoun, noun, determiner

me is spelled M-E: 2 letters and one syllable. It appears 3,020 times per million words in written English, the 38th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “me vs mi” about 170 times a month (Google, United States). As a pronoun, me means “As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in me?

Letters2: M-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3,020 times per million words; the 38th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is me?

Me appears 3,020 times per million words in written English, the 38th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce me?

  • UK /miː/
  • US /mi/
  • /mɪ/

As a determiner (“Alternative form of my”): /miː/.

Me has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-me.ogg, En-us-me.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with me

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

me vs mi170 G
me vs my0 B

Sounds like: mee (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: mee, my.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with me?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as me from its last stressed vowel (/i/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of me

  • mes plural
  • me's self
  • me's

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does me mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

pronoun

  1. 1

    As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.

    Can you hear me?

  2. 2

    archaicproscribedMyself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.

  3. 3

    colloquialproscribedMyself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.

  4. 4

    As the object of a preposition.

    Come with me.

  5. 5

    Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

    Who's there? –Me. (or:) It's only me.

  6. 6

    informalnonstandardproscribedAs the subject of a verb.

    Me and my friends played a game.

  7. 7

    nonstandardproscribedAs the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.

  8. 8

    nonstandardproscribedWould be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.

  9. 9

    obsoleteIndefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.

noun

  1. 1

    The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.

  2. 2

    The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

symbol

as ME
  1. 1

    Earth mass: a unit of measurement, equal to the mass of planet Earth, which is 6×10²⁴ kg or 3×10⁻⁶ M_☉.

  2. 2

    The mass of the Earth specifically.

noun

as ME
  1. 1

    Initialism of master of engineering.

  2. 2

    Initialism of managing editor.

  3. 3

    Initialism of medical examiner.

  4. 4

    Initialism of myalgic encephalomyelitis.

  5. 5

    Initialism of marriage encounter.

  6. 6

    Initialism of main engine.

noun

as Me
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of methyl.

pronoun

as Me
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of me often used when speaking as God or another important figure who is understood from context.

determiner

  1. 1

    AustraliaIrelandUKcolloquialAlternative form of my.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Me in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchme, moi (direct object of a verb)
Germanmich (direct object of a verb), mir (object of a preposition), ich (subject of a verb with “and”)
Portugueseme, mim (direct object of a verb), para mim (reflexive indirect object of a verb), eu (complement of the copula)
Spanishme, mí (direct object of a verb), yo (subject of a verb with “and”)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does me come from?

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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