MHC
"mhc" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MHC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42,267) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42,267
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of major histocompatibility complex.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mhc · MHC · English
MHC · rank #42,267 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,267
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mercier
Nearest frequency peer: Mercier (-2 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 “MHC”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- meander
meander
57,738 corpus weight
- Menon
Menon
57,737 corpus weight
- Mercier
Mercier
57,736 corpus weight
- MHC
MHC
57,734 corpus weight
- Mideast
Mideast
57,732 corpus weight
- midseason
midseason
57,731 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “MHC” 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 | MHC |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42,267 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “MHC”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MHC is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #42,267 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of major histocompatibility complex.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for MHC, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is MHC, spelled M-H-C.
Definition
- 1Initialism of major histocompatibility complex.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MHC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wederkind and Füri looked at MHC genes on chromosome 6, which are the genes involved in the definition of self and the recognition of parastic intruders by the immune system.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).