MLK
"mlk" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“MLK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,260) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,260
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of Martin Luther King Jr..
Corpus desk
Index EN-mlk · MLK · English
MLK · rank #31,260 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,260
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mohan
Nearest frequency peer: Mohan (+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 “MLK”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
68,745 corpus weight
- metallurgy
metallurgy
68,743 corpus weight
- MLK
MLK
68,741 corpus weight
- Mohan
Mohan
68,740 corpus weight
- mull
mull
68,738 corpus weight
- mushy
mushy
68,737 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “MLK” 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 | MLK |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “MLK”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for MLK is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #31,260 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of Martin Luther King Jr..".
MLK doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "MS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is MLK, spelled M-L-K.
Definition
- 1Initialism of Martin Luther King Jr..
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how MLK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our own research suggests that MLK’s “I have a dream” is indeed a “hope booster”.
This rare convergence occurs because MLK Day is always observed on the third Monday in January, while Inauguration Day is constitutionally mandated for January 20.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).