mila
[ˈmila]
The verdict
“mila” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,452) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,452
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Milanesa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mila · mila · Spanish
mila · rank #28,452 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,452
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mido
Nearest frequency peer: mido (-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 “mila”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- mezquino
mezquino
71,552 corpus weight
- mias
mias
71,551 corpus weight
- mido
mido
71,550 corpus weight
- mila
mila
71,549 corpus weight
- milagroso
milagroso
71,548 corpus weight
- Milano
Milano
71,547 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mila” 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 | mila |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmila] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mila”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mila is neighbouring look-alikes ("mío", "min", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmila]. Frequency #28,452 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Milanesa.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mila, with forms such as "imla", "mlia", and "mmila". 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, "mío", "min", "mir", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is mila, spelled M-I-L-A.
Definition
- 1Milanesa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imla
- mlia
- mmila
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mila - 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 "mila", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).