MH
"mh" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,167) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,167
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of mint, hinged.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mh · MH · English
MH · rank #20,167 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,167
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH might've
Nearest frequency peer: might've (+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 “MH”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- mayoral
mayoral
79,838 corpus weight
- medley
medley
79,837 corpus weight
- MH
MH
79,834 corpus weight
- might've
might've
79,833 corpus weight
- minimalist
minimalist
79,832 corpus weight
- misled
misled
79,831 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “MH” 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 | MH |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,167 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “MH”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MH is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #20,167 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of mint, hinged.".
MH doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is MH, spelled M-H.
Definition
- 1Initialism of mint, hinged.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Loose mixed lot, with duplication, of the Portugal & Colonies first decimal definitive designs. Very mixed condition, from VF to junk, all "mint" in some form or another, some MNH, some MH, some MHH, some MNG, etc.
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.