Mme
"mme" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mme” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,506) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,506
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of Madame.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mme · Mme · English
Mme · rank #30,506 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,506
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH misread
Nearest frequency peer: misread (-2 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 “Mme”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Millwall
Millwall
69,499 corpus weight
- Mindanao
Mindanao
69,498 corpus weight
- misread
misread
69,497 corpus weight
- Mme
Mme
69,495 corpus weight
- mousse
mousse
69,493 corpus weight
- nai
nai
69,492 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Mme” 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 | Mme |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Mme”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mme is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #30,506 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Abbreviation of Madame.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mme 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Mme. The correct English form is Mme, spelled M-M-E.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of Madame.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With them were the two royal children, Mmes Tantes (the elderly daughters of Louis XV), Mme Elisabeth, the Comic de Provence and his wife.
In The Bernadinis’ Terrace, gracefully translated by Joanna Kilmartin, Mme Laure Bernardini and her companion, Mme Thérèse, are very old: ‘immobilised, like ships that have run aground, they exist minimally.’
Etymology
From French Mme.
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).