mago
[ˈmaɣ̞o]
The verdict
“mago” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,140. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,140
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que practica la magia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mago · mago · Spanish
mago · rank #8,140 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,140
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Luisa
Nearest frequency peer: Luisa (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “mago”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- LGBT
LGBT
91,864 corpus weight
- limitar
limitar
91,863 corpus weight
- Luisa
Luisa
91,862 corpus weight
- mago
mago
91,861 corpus weight
- Mallorca
Mallorca
91,860 corpus weight
- Mariana
Mariana
91,859 corpus weight
What this shows “mago” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | mago |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mago”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around mago (IPA [ˈmaɣ̞o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,140 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Persona que practica la magia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mago, with forms such as "amgo", "maggo", and "maog". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mg", "mo", "más", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is mago, spelled M-A-G-O.
Definition
- 1Persona que practica la magia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amgo
- maggo
- maog
- mgao
- mmago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mago - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).