mint
/mɪnt/
"mint" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mint” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #8,065 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #8,065
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
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 | mint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɪnt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mint” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for mint is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #8,065 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mint, with forms such as "imnt", "minnt", and "mintt". 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, "MT", "MN", "mix", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where … The correct English form is mint, spelled M-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
- 2A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
- 3Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
Etymology
From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat. The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imnt,minnt,mintt,mitn,mmint,mnit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mint - 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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Using “mint”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɪnt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “MT” - see the side-by-side comparison. mint vs MT
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.