mec
[mɛk]
The verdict
“mec” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,809) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,809
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre enérgico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mec · mec · Spanish
mec · rank #38,809 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,809
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mejoradas
Nearest frequency peer: mejoradas (+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 “mec”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- mantilla
mantilla
61,196 corpus weight
- mayorazgo
mayorazgo
61,194 corpus weight
- mec
mec
61,192 corpus weight
- mejoradas
mejoradas
61,191 corpus weight
- mejorarse
mejorarse
61,190 corpus weight
- merluza
merluza
61,189 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mec” 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 | mec |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɛk] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mec”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mec is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [mɛk]. Frequency #38,809 among 3,868 “M” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for mec in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mm", "my", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mec, spelled M-E-C.
Definition
- 1Hombre enérgico.
- 2Proxeneta.
- 3Tipo, fulano, tío.
- 4Novio, miembro masculino de una pareja.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).