men
/mɛn/
The verdict
“men” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,194) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,194
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de man.
Corpus desk
Index ES-men · men · Spanish
men · rank #7,194 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,194
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH medallas
Nearest frequency peer: medallas (-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 “men”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Marie
Marie
92,810 corpus weight
- matado
matado
92,809 corpus weight
- medallas
medallas
92,808 corpus weight
- men
men
92,807 corpus weight
- mencionados
mencionados
92,806 corpus weight
- mera
mera
92,805 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “men” 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 | men |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɛn/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,194 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “men”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for men is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mɛn/. Frequency #7,194 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del plural de man.".
Zero misspellings are on record for men in our index, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is men, spelled M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de man.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how men appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.
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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