mes
"mes" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,991) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,991
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of me
Corpus desk
Index EN-mes · mes · English
mes · rank #28,991 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,991
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Medici
Nearest frequency peer: Medici (-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 “mes”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- mallet
mallet
71,014 corpus weight
- Maloney
Maloney
71,013 corpus weight
- Medici
Medici
71,011 corpus weight
- mes
mes
71,010 corpus weight
- metastatic
metastatic
71,009 corpus weight
- mew
mew
71,007 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “mes” 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 | mes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,991 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “mes”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mes is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #28,991 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "plural of me".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mes, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is mes, spelled M-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of me
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If I travelled back in time to witness my own birth, would there be two mes?
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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Same letter count
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