mesh
/mɛʃ/
"mesh" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mesh” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,401. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,401
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mesh · mesh · English
mesh · rank #10,401 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,401
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH merge
Nearest frequency peer: merge (-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 neighbourhood for “mesh”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- maths
maths
89,604 corpus weight
- mentioning
mentioning
89,602 corpus weight
- merge
merge
89,601 corpus weight
- mesh
mesh
89,600 corpus weight
- migrant
migrant
89,599 corpus weight
- Mohammed
Mohammed
89,598 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mesh” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mesh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɛʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mesh” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around mesh (IPA /mɛʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,401 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesh, with forms such as "emsh", "mehs", and "meshh". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MS", "MH", "met", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ and *maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).… The correct English form is mesh, spelled M-E-S-H.
Definition
- 1A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
- 2The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
- 3The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
- 4A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
- 5A polygon mesh.
- 6In mesh analysis: a loop in an electric circuit (to which Kirchhoff's voltage law can be applied).
- 7A network topology with each device connected to multiple other devices in lieu of a central switch. Redundancy on a mesh network prevents single points of failure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mesh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
Etymology
From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ and *maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”). Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emsh
- mehs
- meshh
- messh
- mmesh
- mseh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mesh - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "mesh" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "MS". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,401 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.