mahévsmmhWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: mahé is a postp, mmh is an intj, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mahé” is a postp and “mmh” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,035
“mahé” frequency rank
#27,132
“mmh” frequency rank
71167
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mahé mmh
Definition Dans, dedans. Variante de hum, exprime l’hésitation, le doute.

Letter map: mahé vs mmh

Shared letters muted; letters that set mahé and mmh apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mahé runs 4 letters (CVCV) against mmh's 3 (CCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mahé
3 ch
mmh

Part-of-speech tell for mahé / mmh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mahé is apostp and mmhanintj. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71167, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mahé is recorded at frequency rank #44,035, classified as apostp, pronounced \ma.ˈhe\. mmh is at rank #27,132, tagged as anintj.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 71167, this pair ranks #48,552 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mahé vs mmh

Shared letters: hm. Private to "mahé": aé. Private to "mmh": -.

"mahé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "mmh" · 3 letters · shape CCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mahé" for "mmh" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mahé" is a postp and "mmh" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "mahé" or "mmh" show up more?
"mmh" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,132 in our French list, against #44,035 for "mahé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mahé" and "mmh".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mahé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mmh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #48,552 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mahé" and "mmh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mahé vs MWh". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #48,552 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list