mar
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#674
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mar is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cuerpo de agua salada que rodea los continentes de la Tierra. Pronounced [ˈmaɾ]. It ranks #674 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mi and mm.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mar is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #674 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mm", "my", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is mar, spelled M-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cuerpo de agua salada que rodea los continentes de la Tierra.
- 2Cada una de las divisiones que se hacen al mar₁, frecuentemente en función de los accidentes geográficos.
- 3División del mar₁ que por su extensión no alcanza la categoría de océano.
- 4Lago grande y de agua salada.
- 5Figuradamente, gran cantidad de algo.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #674 in Spanish
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