Español homophones

mejicano/mexicano

"mexicano" (#1,554 written frequency) beats "mejicano" (#40,951) in this 2-word /mexiˈkano/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.

Data vintage

Frequency splits the cluster

These 2 spellings keep the same /mexiˈkano/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "mexicano" leads at #1,554, with "mejicano" trailing at #40,951.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Shared stem "me" then splits - "mejicano" (8 letters) vs "mexicano" (8).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across mejicano, mexicano: aceimno. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • mejicano

    8 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCVCVCV

    Inventory aceijmno · private j

  • mexicano

    8 letters · 4 vowels · shape CVCVCVCV

    Inventory aceimnox · private x

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "mejicano" when you mean: Grafía anticuada de mexicano
  • Write "mexicano" when you mean: Originario, relativo a, o propio de México.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • mejicanoemjicano · meijcano · mejciano · mejiacno · mejicanno · mejicaon
  • mexicanoemxicano · meixcano · mexciano · mexiacno · mexicanno · mexicaon

Each spelling

mejicano

adjective · /mexiˈkano/ · #40,951 frequency

Grafía anticuada de mexicano

mexicano

adjective · /mexiˈkano/ · #1,554 frequency

Originario, relativo a, o propio de México.

Nearby Spanish homophone groups

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list