means
/miːnz/
The verdict
“means” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,053. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,053
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de mean.
Corpus desk
Index ES-means · means · Spanish
means · rank #46,053 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,053
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH medusas
Nearest frequency peer: medusas (+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 “means”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Marks
Marks
53,950 corpus weight
- means
means
53,948 corpus weight
- medusas
medusas
53,947 corpus weight
- Meier
Meier
53,946 corpus weight
- Melinda
Melinda
53,945 corpus weight
- mello
mello
53,944 corpus weight
What this shows “means” 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 | means |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /miːnz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “means”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around means (IPA /miːnz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,053 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de mean.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for means, with forms such as "emans", "maens", and "meanns". 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, "mes", "men", "menú", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 means, spelled M-E-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de mean.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emans
- maens
- meanns
- meanss
- measn
- menas
- mmeans
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of means - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).