miel
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,231
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
miel is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fluido dulce y de color dorado elaborado por las abejas a partir de néctar de flores, apreciado como alimento. Pronounced [ˈmjel]. It ranks #5,231 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mil and mío.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | miel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmjel] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for miel is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmjel]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,231 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for miel, with forms such as "imel", "meil", and "miell". 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, "mil", "mío", "min", 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 miel, spelled M-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fluido dulce y de color dorado elaborado por las abejas a partir de néctar de flores, apreciado como alimento.
- 2Color pardo-dorado que recuerda al de la miel₁.
- 3Por analogía con la miel₁, fluido que queda al extraer el azúcar del guarapo de caña de azúcar, apreciado como alimento.
- 4Satisfacción producida por el cumplimiento de un deber o empeño.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imel,meil,miell,mmiel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miel
Misspelling Variants of "miel"
Frequency rank: #5,231 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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