mera
[ˈmeɾa]
The verdict
“mera” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,196) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,196
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino de mero₂.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mera · mera · Spanish
mera · rank #7,196 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,196
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mencionados
Nearest frequency peer: mencionados (-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 “mera”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- medallas
medallas
92,808 corpus weight
- men
men
92,807 corpus weight
- mencionados
mencionados
92,806 corpus weight
- mera
mera
92,805 corpus weight
- monopolio
monopolio
92,804 corpus weight
- multas
multas
92,803 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mera” 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 | mera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmeɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mera”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mera is neighbouring look-alikes ("Mr", "mes", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈmeɾa]. Frequency #7,196 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino de mero₂.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mera, with forms such as "emra", "merra", and "mmera". 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, "Mr", "mes", "mia", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mera, spelled M-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de mero₂.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emra
- merra
- mmera
- mrea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mera - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "mera", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).