mejillón

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mejillón is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mexiˈʝõn]. Corpus data places it at rank #82,197 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Mytilidae) Molusco lamelibranquio con la concha de color negro azulado por fuera, de unos cuatro centímetros de longitud, la cara interior nacarada y con charnela provista de dientes muy pequeños....".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mejillón, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is mejillón, spelled M-E-J-I-L-L-Ó-N.