mo
The verdict
“mo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #7,460 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #7,460
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mi, mío.
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 | mo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #7,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mo is 2 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #7,460 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mi, mío.".
mo has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "mu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is mo, spelled M-O.
Definition
- 1Mi, mío.
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 “mo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “my” - see the side-by-side comparison. mo vs my
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.