mechones
[meˈt͡ʃones]
The verdict
“mechones” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #43,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,123
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de mechón.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mechones · mechones · Spanish
mechones · rank #43,123 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,123
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mediado
Nearest frequency peer: mediado (+2 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 “mechones”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- manteles
manteles
56,886 corpus weight
- maple
maple
56,885 corpus weight
- mayordomos
mayordomos
56,881 corpus weight
- mechones
mechones
56,878 corpus weight
- mediado
mediado
56,876 corpus weight
- mens
mens
56,874 corpus weight
What this shows “mechones” 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 | mechones |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈt͡ʃones] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mechones”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mechones (IPA [meˈt͡ʃones]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,123 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de mechón.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mechones, with forms such as "emchones", "mcehones", and "mecchones". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "melones", "mociones", "mechón", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 mechones, spelled M-E-C-H-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de mechón.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emchones
- mcehones
- mecchones
- mechhones
- mechnoes
- mechoens
- mechoness
- mechonnes
- mechonse
- mecohnes
- mehcones
- mmechones
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mechones - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mechones", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).