Mary
/ˈmɛə.ɹi/
The verdict
“Mary” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,805 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #4,805
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a María.
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 | Mary |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛə.ɹi/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,805 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mary” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Mary is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmɛə.ɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,805 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a María.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mary, with forms such as "amry", "marry", and "maryy". 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, "my", "Mr", "más", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Mary, spelled M-A-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Nombre personal femenino, equivalente a María.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amry,marry,maryy,mayr,mmary,mray
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mary - 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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Using “Mary”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmɛə.ɹi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “my” - see the side-by-side comparison. Mary vs my
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.