mestizo
/mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/
"mestizo" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mestizo” is uncommon English (frequency #67,643 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,643
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mestizo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,643 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mestizo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mestizo is uncommon English at frequency #67,643 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for mestizo in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French. The correct English form is mestizo, spelled M-E-S-T-I-Z-O.
Definition
- 1A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Spanish and Native American heritage.
- 2A person of mixed ancestry, especially one of Austronesian Filipino and Spanish or Chinese ancestry, such as that of the Spanish mestizos and Chinese mestizos from the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mestizo, from Late Latin mixtīcius, from Latin mixtus (“mixed”). Doublet of metis, which came from French.
This word in other languages
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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Using “mestizo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-S-T-I-Z-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /mɛsˈtiː.zoʊ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.