mince
/mɪns/
"mince" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mince” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,293. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,293
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mince · mince · English
mince · rank #28,293 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,293
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Middletown
Nearest frequency peer: Middletown (-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 “mince”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Merton
Merton
71,712 corpus weight
- methodical
methodical
71,711 corpus weight
- Middletown
Middletown
71,709 corpus weight
- mince
mince
71,708 corpus weight
- mints
mints
71,706 corpus weight
- Molotov
Molotov
71,705 corpus weight
What this shows “mince” 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 | mince |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɪns/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #28,293 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mince”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around mince (IPA /mɪns/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,293 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for mince, with forms such as "imnce", "micne", and "mincce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mind", "mine", "mini", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ġeminsian (“to make less, make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-West Germanic *minnisōn, from Proto-Germanic *minnisōną (“to make less”); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (“to cut int… The correct English form is mince, spelled M-I-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Finely chopped meat; minced meat.
- 2Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
- 3An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
- 4An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
- 5An eye (from mince pie).
- 6Something worthless; rubbish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mince appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mince tastes really good fried in a pan with some chopped onion and tomato.
During Christmas time my dad loves to eat mince pies.
Etymology
From Middle English mincen, minsen; partly from Old English minsian, ġeminsian (“to make less, make smaller, diminish”), from Proto-West Germanic *minnisōn, from Proto-Germanic *minnisōną (“to make less”); partly from Old French mincer, mincier (“to cut into small pieces”), from mince (“slender, slight, puny”), from Frankish *minsto, *minnisto, superlative of *min, *minn (“small, less”), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”); both from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Old Saxon minsōn (“to make less, make smaller”), Old Dutch minson (“to make smaller”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐌶𐌽𐌰𐌽 (minznan, “to become less, diminish”), Swedish minska (“to reduce, lessen”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (mins, “slender, slight”). More at min.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imnce
- micne
- mincce
- minec
- minnce
- mmince
- mnice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mince - 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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