# mentor

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɛn.tɔː/ · frequency rank #7,940

## Definitions
1. A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.

## Etymology
From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”).

## Easily confused with
- **minor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mentor-vs-minor)
- **motor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mentor-vs-motor)
- **meter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mentor-vs-meter)
- **meteor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mentor-vs-meteor)
- **Merton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mentor-vs-merton)
- **monitor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mentor-vs-monitor)
- **manor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/manor-vs-mentor)
- **Menlo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/menlo-vs-mentor)
- **Menon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/menon-vs-mentor)
- **mental** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mental-vs-mentor)
- **melton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/melton-vs-mentor)
- **Mellor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mellor-vs-mentor)
- **mention** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mention-vs-mentor)
- **menthol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/menthol-vs-mentor)

## Common misspellings (9)
`emntor`, `menntor`, `menotr`, `mentorr`, `mentro`, `menttor`, `metnor`, `mmentor`, `mnetor`

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