med
[mɛt]
The verdict
“med” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,490) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,490
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Miel.
Corpus desk
Index ES-med · med · Spanish
med · rank #19,490 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,490
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH maza
Nearest frequency peer: maza (-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 “med”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- marrones
marrones
80,514 corpus weight
- Matamoros
Matamoros
80,513 corpus weight
- maza
maza
80,512 corpus weight
- med
med
80,511 corpus weight
- medicinal
medicinal
80,510 corpus weight
- mercadeo
mercadeo
80,508 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “med” 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 | med |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mɛt] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “med”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for med is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [mɛt]. Frequency #19,490 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Miel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for med in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is med, spelled M-E-D.
Definition
- 1Miel.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).