mee
/miː/
"mee" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mee” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,288) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,288
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of me.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mee · mee · English
mee · rank #28,288 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,288
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McCormack
Nearest frequency peer: McCormack (-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 “mee”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- magenta
magenta
71,717 corpus weight
- Marlboro
Marlboro
71,715 corpus weight
- McCormack
McCormack
71,714 corpus weight
- mee
mee
71,713 corpus weight
- Merton
Merton
71,712 corpus weight
- methodical
methodical
71,711 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “mee” 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 | mee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /miː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “mee”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mee is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /miː/. Frequency #28,288 among 4,057 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mee, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me. The correct English form is mee, spelled M-E-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of me.
- 2obsolete emphatic of me
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Macbeth: Accursed be that tongue that tels mee so; / For it hath Cow'd my better part of man: […]
Behold mee then, mee for him, life for life / I offer, on mee let thine anger fall; / Account mee man; […]
Etymology
From Middle English mee, variant of me, from Old English mē (“me”). See further at me.
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 "mee", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).