mel
/ˈmeːl/
The verdict
“mel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,871) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,871
- 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-mel · mel · Spanish
mel · rank #12,871 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,871
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH matemático
Nearest frequency peer: matemático (-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 “mel”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- marinas
marinas
87,133 corpus weight
- masajes
masajes
87,132 corpus weight
- matemático
matemático
87,131 corpus weight
- mel
mel
87,130 corpus weight
- milímetros
milímetros
87,129 corpus weight
- minimizar
minimizar
87,128 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mel” 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 | mel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmeːl/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mel”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mel is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈmeːl/. Frequency #12,871 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Miel.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mel, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 mel, spelled M-E-L.
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).