mib
"mib" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mib” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,912) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,912
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mib · mib · English
mib · rank #39,912 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,912
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mesothelioma
Nearest frequency peer: mesothelioma (-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 “mib”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- McIlroy
McIlroy
60,093 corpus weight
- MDC
MDC
60,092 corpus weight
- Meehan
Meehan
60,091 corpus weight
- mesothelioma
mesothelioma
60,090 corpus weight
- mib
mib
60,089 corpus weight
- mire
mire
60,087 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “mib” 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 | mib |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “mib”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mib is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #39,912 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mib, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Perhaps a corruption of marble. The correct English form is mib, spelled M-I-B.
Definition
- 1A marble (glass ball used in games), especially one used as a target.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mib appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On my first shot of the last game, I hit two mibs, my shooter and one marble exiting the ring, but leaving a snooger, which is a “commie rat” target marble near the rim of the ring.
Thirteen five-eighths-inch marbles (“mibs”) are set in a cross in the center. Each mib should be three inches from its neighboring mib. Each player shoots with a “shooter,” a marble that's one-half to three-quarter inches in diameter.
Etymology
Perhaps a corruption of marble.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).