Mii
"mii" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mii” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,193) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,193
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.
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 | Mii |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,193 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mii” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mii is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #47,193 among 36,575 “M” headwords. Gloss: "A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.".
Mii doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of Wii + me. First introduced on the Wii, which was released in November 2006. The correct English form is Mii, spelled M-I-I.
Definition
- 1A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.
Etymology
Blend of Wii + me. First introduced on the Wii, which was released in November 2006.
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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Using “Mii”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-I-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “my” - see the side-by-side comparison. Mii vs my
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Words at a similar English frequency
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.