amo
[ˈamo]
The verdict
“amo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,233) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,233
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre que está a la cabeza o a cargo de algo, especialmente de una casa, hacienda. animal o familia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amo · amo · Spanish
amo · rank #1,233 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,233
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acaba
Nearest frequency peer: acaba (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “amo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- usuario
usuario
98,771 corpus weight
- acaba
acaba
98,769 corpus weight
- amo
amo
98,768 corpus weight
- barrio
barrio
98,767 corpus weight
- chico
chico
98,766 corpus weight
- ciento
ciento
98,765 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “amo” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈamo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “amo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for amo is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "as", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈamo]. Frequency #1,233 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for amo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is amo, spelled A-M-O.
Definition
- 1Hombre que está a la cabeza o a cargo de algo, especialmente de una casa, hacienda. animal o familia.
- 2Hombre que posee o es dueño (tiene potestad y autoridad sobre) algo.
- 3Respecto de sus criados o esclavos, hombre que era su propietario.
- 4Persona con gran influencia o predominio sobre otra u otras y sobre cuya voluntad puede mandar.
- 5Hombre encargado de administrar una hacienda (capataz, mayoral) o de cuidar a los niños (ayo) de una familia pudiente.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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