# mirror

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈmɪɹ.ɐ/ · frequency rank #3,184

## Definitions
1. A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
2. An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
3. A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.
4. A mirror carp.
5. A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.

## Etymology
From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

## Easily confused with
- **morrow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mirror-vs-morrow)
- **Mordor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mirror-vs-mordor)
- **mirrors** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mirror-vs-mirrors)
- **miro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/miro-vs-mirror)
- **minor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/minor-vs-mirror)
- **micro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/micro-vs-mirror)
- **marrow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/marrow-vs-mirror)
- **micron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/micron-vs-mirror)

## Common misspellings (7)
`imrror`, `miror`, `mirorr`, `mirrorr`, `mirrro`, `mmirror`, `mriror`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mirror