mais
[mɛ]
The verdict
“mais” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,283) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,283
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pero.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mais · mais · Spanish
mais · rank #32,283 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,283
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Maciel
Nearest frequency peer: Maciel (-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 “mais”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- lisos
lisos
67,721 corpus weight
- Maciel
Maciel
67,719 corpus weight
- mais
mais
67,718 corpus weight
- making
making
67,717 corpus weight
- Maldivas
Maldivas
67,716 corpus weight
- malentendid…
malentendidos
67,715 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mais” 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 | mais |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [mɛ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,283 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mais”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mais is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "más", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced [mɛ]. Frequency #32,283 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Pero.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mais, with forms such as "maiss", "masi", and "mmais". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "más", "mal", 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 explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is mais, spelled M-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pero.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- maiss
- masi
- mmais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mais", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).