mela
[ˈme.la]
The verdict
“mela” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,235) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,235
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manzana.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mela · mela · Spanish
mela · rank #38,235 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,235
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH masoquista
Nearest frequency peer: masoquista (-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 “mela”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- marginadas
marginadas
61,769 corpus weight
- Mariel
Mariel
61,768 corpus weight
- masoquista
masoquista
61,767 corpus weight
- mela
mela
61,766 corpus weight
- memories
memories
61,765 corpus weight
- mentores
mentores
61,764 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mela” 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 | mela |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈme.la] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,235 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mela”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mela is neighbouring look-alikes ("mil", "mes", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈme.la]. Frequency #38,235 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Manzana.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mela, with forms such as "emla", "meal", and "mlea". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mil", "mes", "mia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mela, spelled M-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Manzana.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emla
- meal
- mlea
- mmela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mela - 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 "mela", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).