Mercedes
[meɾˈseð̞es]
The verdict
“Mercedes” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,625
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ciudad de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, cabecera del partido del mismo nombre. Su gentilicio es mercedino.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mercedes · Mercedes · Spanish
Mercedes · rank #4,625 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,625
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH manifiesto
Nearest frequency peer: manifiesto (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Mercedes”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- llevas
llevas
95,379 corpus weight
- logros
logros
95,378 corpus weight
- manifiesto
manifiesto
95,377 corpus weight
- Mercedes
Mercedes
95,376 corpus weight
- miseria
miseria
95,375 corpus weight
- novelas
novelas
95,374 corpus weight
What this shows “Mercedes” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Mercedes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [meɾˈseð̞es] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Mercedes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Mercedes (IPA [meɾˈseð̞es]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,625 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mercedes, with forms such as "emrcedes", "mecredes", and "merccedes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "mereces", "merced", "mercados", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Mercedes, spelled M-E-R-C-E-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina, cabecera del partido del mismo nombre. Su gentilicio es mercedino.
- 2Partido de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 3Ciudad del departamento de Soriano, en el oeste del Uruguay.
- 4Nombre de pila de mujer.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrcedes
- mecredes
- merccedes
- mercdees
- merceddes
- mercedess
- mercedse
- merceeds
- merecdes
- merrcedes
- mersedes
- mmercedes
- mrecedes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mercedes - 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 "Mercedes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).