met
/mɛt/
"met" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“met” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #853) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #853
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of meet
Corpus desk
Index EN-met · met · English
met · rank #853 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #853
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH kill
Nearest frequency peer: kill (-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 “met”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- French
French
99,151 corpus weight
- January
January
99,150 corpus weight
- kill
kill
99,149 corpus weight
- met
met
99,148 corpus weight
- perhaps
perhaps
99,147 corpus weight
- poor
poor
99,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “met” 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 | met |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /mɛt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #853 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “met”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for met is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /mɛt/. Frequency #853 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of meet".
No generated misspelling entries exist for met in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is met, spelled M-E-T.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of meet
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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