mine

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for mine is 4 letters long, classified as apron, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /maɪ̯n/. Corpus data places it at rank #971 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mine, with forms such as "imne", "mien", and "minne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MN", "mix", "mon", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English min, myn, from Old English mīn, from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *méynos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian mien, West Frisian myn, Dutch mijn, Low German mien, German mein, Danish, Swedish… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is mine, spelled M-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.