mistress
/ˈmɪs.trɪs/
The verdict
“mistress” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #80,297 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,297
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dueña, ama.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mistress · mistress · Spanish
mistress · rank #80,297 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,297
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mochuelo
Nearest frequency peer: mochuelo (+2 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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “mistress”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- minijuego
minijuego
19,709 corpus weight
- minimizado
minimizado
19,708 corpus weight
- mistress
mistress
19,704 corpus weight
- mochuelo
mochuelo
19,702 corpus weight
- modelados
modelados
19,701 corpus weight
- monoteísmo
monoteísmo
19,697 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “mistress” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mistress |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɪs.trɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,297 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mistress” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mistress is uncommon Spanish at frequency #80,297 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmɪs.trɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mistress, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is mistress, spelled M-I-S-T-R-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Dueña, ama.
- 2Señora.
- 3Amante.
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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