MLB
"mlb" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MLB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,959) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,959
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Major League Baseball.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mlb · MLB · English
MLB · rank #8,959 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,959
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Misses
Nearest frequency peer: Misses (-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 neighbours of confusable “MLB”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- manipulation
manipulation
91,045 corpus weight
- merchants
merchants
91,044 corpus weight
- Misses
Misses
91,043 corpus weight
- MLB
MLB
91,042 corpus weight
- mock
mock
91,041 corpus weight
- necklace
necklace
91,040 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “MLB” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | MLB |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “MLB”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MLB is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #8,959 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of Major League Baseball.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for MLB in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is MLB, spelled M-L-B.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Major League Baseball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MLB appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was no repeat rainbow rebellion during last Saturday’s Pride Night at Tropicana Field after MLB introduced a policy this season forbidding teams from changing their uniforms to mark local themed events.
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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