mero
[ˈmeɾo]
The verdict
“mero” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #7,756 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,756
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (subfamilia Epinephelinae) Grupo de unos veinte géneros de peces teleósteos (de esquelo osificado) de cuerpo robusto, grandes mandíbulas armadas de muchos dientes y carne muy apreciada por su buen ...
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 | mero |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmeɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,756 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mero” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mero is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmeɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,756 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(subfamilia Epinephelinae) Grupo de unos veinte géneros de peces teleósteos (de esquelo osificado) de cuerpo robusto, grandes mandíbulas armadas de muchos dientes y carne muy apreciada por su buen ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for mero, with forms such as "emro", "meor", and "merro". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Mr", "mo", "mes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mero, spelled M-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1(subfamilia Epinephelinae) Grupo de unos veinte géneros de peces teleósteos (de esquelo osificado) de cuerpo robusto, grandes mandíbulas armadas de muchos dientes y carne muy apreciada por su buen sabor. El cuerpo, de forma achatada, puede llegar a un metro de longitud, con colores desde amarillento hasta rojizo. Muchos viven en el mar Mediterráneo.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emro,meor,merro,mmero,mreo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mero - 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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Using “mero”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-R-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmeɾo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Mr” - see the side-by-side comparison. mero vs Mr
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.