mito
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,135
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mito is aSpanishnoun. It means: Narración fabulosa y tradicional, de importancia para una sociedad, que trata sobre divinidades, héroes, o seres sobrenaturales, y que logra explicar los orígenes del mundo, de un pueblo, de normas... Pronounced [ˈmit̪o]. It ranks #5,135 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mo and mix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mito |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmit̪o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mito is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmit̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,135 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mito, with forms such as "imto", "miot", and "mitto". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mo", "mix", "moo", 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 mito, spelled M-I-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Narración fabulosa y tradicional, de importancia para una sociedad, que trata sobre divinidades, héroes, o seres sobrenaturales, y que logra explicar los orígenes del mundo, de un pueblo, de normas y tabúes, así como también fenómenos naturales y sobrenaturales.
- 2Conjunto de creencias e imágenes idealizadas que se forman alrededor de un personaje o fenómeno y que le convierten en modelo, arquetipo o prototipo.
- 3Creencias sostenidas en el tiempo acerca de un hecho, por lo general alejadas de la realidad.
- 4Invención, fantasía.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imto,miot,mitto,mmito,mtio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mito
Misspelling Variants of "mito"
Frequency rank: #5,135 in Spanish
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