mb
/ˈᵐbe/
The verdict
“mb” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,088) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,088
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Decimoquinta letra del achegety o alfabeto guaraní.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mb · mb · Spanish
mb · rank #11,088 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,088
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Matthew
Nearest frequency peer: Matthew (-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 “mb”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- marfil
marfil
88,916 corpus weight
- Marín
Marín
88,915 corpus weight
- Matthew
Matthew
88,914 corpus weight
- mb
mb
88,913 corpus weight
- mierdas
mierdas
88,912 corpus weight
- mojado
mojado
88,911 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mb” 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 | mb |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | /ˈᵐbe/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mb”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mb is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced /ˈᵐbe/. Frequency #11,088 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Decimoquinta letra del achegety o alfabeto guaraní.".
mb doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is mb, spelled M-B.
Definition
- 1Decimoquinta letra del achegety o alfabeto guaraní.
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.