mph
/ˌɛmpiˈeɪt͡ʃ/
"mph" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mph” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,813) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,813
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of mile(s) per hour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mph · mph · English
mph · rank #6,813 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,813
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH motors
Nearest frequency peer: motors (-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 “mph”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- mob
mob
93,191 corpus weight
- modest
modest
93,190 corpus weight
- motors
motors
93,189 corpus weight
- mph
mph
93,188 corpus weight
- navigation
navigation
93,187 corpus weight
- Nicholas
Nicholas
93,186 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “mph” 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 | mph |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌɛmpiˈeɪt͡ʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “mph”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mph is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˌɛmpiˈeɪt͡ʃ/. Frequency #6,813 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Initialism of mile(s) per hour.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mph in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is mph, spelled M-P-H.
Definition
- 1Initialism of mile(s) per hour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toyota spokesman Paul Hogard said the automaker wants speedometers to be easy to read, so there’s value in placing the typical operating speed of American cars, 45 mph to 70 mph, he said, at the top of the speedometer, which is the easiest place on the speedometer for the driver to read.
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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