mice
/maɪs/
"mice" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mice” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,166. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,166
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of mouse
Corpus desk
Index EN-mice · mice · English
mice · rank #6,166 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,166
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH meter
Nearest frequency peer: meter (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “mice”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Marcus
Marcus
93,838 corpus weight
- mentions
mentions
93,837 corpus weight
- meter
meter
93,836 corpus weight
- mice
mice
93,835 corpus weight
- olive
olive
93,833 corpus weight
- passionate
passionate
93,832 corpus weight
What this shows “mice” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | mice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /maɪs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #6,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mice”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mice (IPA /maɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,166 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of mouse".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mice, with forms such as "imce", "mcie", and "micce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mix", "min", "mil", 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 mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Fris… The correct English form is mice, spelled M-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1plural of mouse
Etymology
From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imce
- mcie
- micce
- miec
- mmice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mice - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mice", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (5 here; floor ≥5).