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muh

/mʌ/determiner

muh is spelled M-U-H: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory determiner, muh means “Pronunciation spelling of my” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in muh?

Letters3: M-U-H
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 40,267th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is muh?

Muh appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce muh?

  • /mʌ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-muh.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with muh?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as muh.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: hum, uhm, hmu.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does muh mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

determiner

  1. 1

    derogatoryPronunciation spelling of my.

    muh free software

adjective

as MUH
  1. 1

    Initialism of mint unhinged.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does muh come from?

Evidently popularized circa early 2010s by memes on 4chan, but usage online is first attested in c. 2003.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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