mind you
"mind-you" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mind you” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
Corpus desk
Index EN-mind-you · mind you · English
mind you · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mind you |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mind you” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mind you is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mind you in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mind you, spelled M-I-N-D- -Y-O-U.
Definition
- 1Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mind you appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These shirts are very expensive. Mind you, they are excellent quality.
Mind you, it was not an outing I would recommend as relaxing.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.