miss
[ˈmis]
The verdict
“miss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,134) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,134
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ganadora de un concurso de belleza.
Corpus desk
Index ES-miss · miss · Spanish
miss · rank #5,134 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,134
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH miro
Nearest frequency peer: miro (-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 “miss”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- militantes
militantes
94,870 corpus weight
- minerales
minerales
94,869 corpus weight
- miro
miro
94,868 corpus weight
- miss
miss
94,867 corpus weight
- mito
mito
94,866 corpus weight
- modernos
modernos
94,865 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “miss” 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 | miss |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “miss”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for miss is neighbouring look-alikes ("mix", "mit", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmis]. Frequency #5,134 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Ganadora de un concurso de belleza.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for miss, with forms such as "imss", "mis", and "mmiss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mix", "mit", "Mrs", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is miss, spelled M-I-S-S.
Definition
- 1Ganadora de un concurso de belleza.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imss
- mis
- mmiss
- msis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of miss - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "miss", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).