mine
/maɪ̯n/
"mine" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mine” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #971. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #971
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That or those belonging to me.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mine · mine · English
mine · rank #971 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #971
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH India
Nearest frequency peer: India (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mine”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Europe
Europe
99,033 corpus weight
- George
George
99,032 corpus weight
- India
India
99,031 corpus weight
- mine
mine
99,030 corpus weight
- minister
minister
99,029 corpus weight
- note
note
99,028 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mine” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /maɪ̯n/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #971 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mine” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mine (IPA /maɪ̯n/), apronoun. Corpus frequency is #971 among 36,575 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mine, with forms such as "imne", "mien", and "minne". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MN", "mix", "mon", 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 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… The correct English form is mine, spelled M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1That or those belonging to me.
- 2That or those belonging to me.
- 3That or those belonging to me.
- 4That or those belonging to me.
- 5That or those belonging to me.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The house itself is mine, but the land is not.
These books are mine.
Etymology
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 and Norwegian min, Icelandic mín.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imne
- mien
- minne
- mmine
- mnie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
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.