miopía

/[mjoˈpia]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,625

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

4

similar word pairs

miopía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Estado refractivo del ojo inverso a la hipermetropía en el que la imagen se forma por delante de la retina, provocando que la persona tenga dificultad para enfocar los objetos distantes. Pronounced [mjoˈpia]. Often confused with moría and movía.

Key facts for miopía
PropertyValue
Headwordmiopía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[mjoˈpia]
Letters6
Frequency rank#35,625
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of miopía in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for miopía is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mjoˈpia]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,625 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Estado refractivo del ojo inverso a la hipermetropía en el que la imagen se forma por delante de la retina, provocando que la persona tenga dificultad para enfocar los objetos distantes.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for miopía, with forms such as "imopía", "miopaí", and "mioppía". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "moría", "movía", "momia", 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 miopía, spelled M-I-O-P-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Estado refractivo del ojo inverso a la hipermetropía en el que la imagen se forma por delante de la retina, provocando que la persona tenga dificultad para enfocar los objetos distantes.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: imopía,miopaí,mioppía,mioípa,mipoía,mmiopía,moipía

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for miopía

Misspelling Variants of "miopía"

imopía6miopaí6mioppía7mioípa6mipoía6mmiopía7moipía6
Misspelling Variants of "miopía"

Frequency rank: #35,625 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "miopía"?
"miopía" is spelled M-I-O-P-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [mjoˈpia].
What does "miopía" mean?
As a noun, "miopía" means: Estado refractivo del ojo inverso a la hipermetropía en el que la imagen se forma por delante de la retina, provocando que la persona tenga dificultad para enfocar los objetos distantes.
What words are commonly confused with "miopía"?
"miopía" is commonly confused with "moría", "movía", "momia". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "miopía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "miopía" is [mjoˈpia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "miopía" come from?
"miopía" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.