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 May 6, 2026) - Used to introduce a qualification or contrastive statement, especially when toning down or rectifying
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mind you |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mind you” sits in English frequency
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
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.
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Using “mind you”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-I-N-D- -Y-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.