mix
[ˈmiks]
The verdict
“mix” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,406) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,406
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Combinación, mezcla.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mix · mix · Spanish
mix · rank #14,406 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,406
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH miniatura
Nearest frequency peer: miniatura (-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 “mix”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Menéndez
Menéndez
85,598 corpus weight
- miniatura
miniatura
85,596 corpus weight
- mix
mix
85,595 corpus weight
- moléculas
moléculas
85,594 corpus weight
- mouse
mouse
85,593 corpus weight
- mozo
mozo
85,592 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mix” 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 | mix |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmiks] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mix”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mix is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "my", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmiks]. Frequency #14,406 among 3,868 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mix, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "my", "Mr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is mix, spelled M-I-X.
Definition
- 1Combinación, mezcla.
- 2Conjunto de cosas más o menos relacionadas.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).