mae
[ˈmae]
The verdict
“mae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,199) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,199
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tratamiento coloquial y general para personas, especialmente jóvenes del sexo masculino.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mae · mae · Spanish
mae · rank #17,199 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,199
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH lámina
Nearest frequency peer: lámina (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mae”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- lácteos
lácteos
82,804 corpus weight
- lámina
lámina
82,803 corpus weight
- mae
mae
82,802 corpus weight
- mamíferos
mamíferos
82,801 corpus weight
- mantas
mantas
82,800 corpus weight
- market
market
82,799 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mae” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mae |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmae] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “mae” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mae is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmae]. Frequency #17,199 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Tratamiento coloquial y general para personas, especialmente jóvenes del sexo masculino.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mae in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mm", "my", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is mae, spelled M-A-E.
Definition
- 1Tratamiento coloquial y general para personas, especialmente jóvenes del sexo masculino.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "mae" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "mi". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #17,199 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.