miedo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#487
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
miedo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Emoción de ansiedad difícil de controlar causada por algo que puede causar algún daño físico, emocional, patrimonial etc. Tanto el objeto que causa el miedo como la posibilidad de causar daño puede... Pronounced [ˈmjeð̞o]. It ranks #487 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mío and modo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miedo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmjeð̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for miedo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmjeð̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #487 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for miedo, with forms such as "imedo", "mideo", and "mieddo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mío", "modo", "miro", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is miedo, spelled M-I-E-D-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Emoción de ansiedad difícil de controlar causada por algo que puede causar algún daño físico, emocional, patrimonial etc. Tanto el objeto que causa el miedo como la posibilidad de causar daño pueden ser reales o imaginarios.
- 2Sentimiento de sospecha o preocupación de que ocurra algún suceso adverso.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imedo,mideo,mieddo,mieod,mmiedo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miedo
Misspelling Variants of "miedo"
Frequency rank: #487 in Spanish
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