mevsmeshWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: me is a pronoun, mesh is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“me” is a pronoun and “mesh” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#28
“me” frequency rank
#43,032
“mesh” frequency rank
43060
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature me mesh
Definition pronome pessoal oblíquo átono da primeira pessoa do singular, usado em complementos direto do verbo: interstício

Letter map: me vs mesh

Shared letters muted; letters that set me and mesh apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

2 ch
me
4 ch
mesh

Part-of-speech tell for me / mesh

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: me is apronoun and meshanoun. On the page they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “me” sits inside “mesh”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43060, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

me is recorded at frequency rank #28, classified as apron. mesh is at rank #43,032, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈmɛʃ/.

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 43060, this pair ranks #22,617 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of me vs mesh

Shared letters: em. Private to "me": -. Private to "mesh": hs.

"me" · 2 letters · shape CV  ·  "mesh" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • meshemsh · mehs · meshh · messh · mmesh · mseh

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "me" and "mesh" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "me" is a pronoun and "mesh" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "me" or "mesh"?
"me" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28 in our Portuguese list, against #43,032 for "mesh". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "me" and "mesh".

  • Full dictionary entry for "me" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mesh" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #22,617 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "me" and "mesh" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mesh vs muso". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #22,617 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list