miopía
[mjoˈpia]
The verdict
“miopía” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #35,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,625
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
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 | miopía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [mjoˈpia] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “miopía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around miopía (IPA [mjoˈpia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,625 among 36,142 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for miopía, with forms such as "imopía", "miopaí", and "mioppía". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "moría", "movía", "momia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is miopía, spelled M-I-O-P-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Estado 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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imopía
- miopaí
- mioppía
- mioípa
- mipoía
- mmiopía
- moipía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miopía - 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 “miopía”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-I-O-P-Í-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mjoˈpia] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “moría” - see the side-by-side comparison. miopía vs moría
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.