mei
/ˈme.iː/
The verdict
“mei” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,446) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,446
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del genitivo singular de egō.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mei · mei · Spanish
mei · rank #28,446 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,446
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH menús
Nearest frequency peer: menús (+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 “mei”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Matos
Matos
71,558 corpus weight
- mei
mei
71,555 corpus weight
- menús
menús
71,554 corpus weight
- merma
merma
71,553 corpus weight
- mezquino
mezquino
71,552 corpus weight
- mias
mias
71,551 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mei” 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 | mei |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | /ˈme.iː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mei”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mei is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced /ˈme.iː/. Frequency #28,446 among 3,868 “M” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for mei 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is mei, spelled M-E-I.
Definition
- 1Forma del genitivo singular de egō.
- 2Forma del nominativo masculino plural de meus.
- 3Forma del vocativo masculino plural de meus.
- 4Forma del genitivo masculino singular de meus.
- 5Forma del genitivo neutro singular de meus.
- 6Forma del locativo masculino singular de meus.
- 7Forma del locativo neutro singular de meus.
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 "mei", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).