mo
The verdict
“mo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,460) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,460
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mi, mío.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mo · mo · Spanish
mo · rank #7,460 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,460
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH molestia
Nearest frequency peer: molestia (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- marino
marino
92,544 corpus weight
- Michoacán
Michoacán
92,543 corpus weight
- mo
mo
92,541 corpus weight
- molestia
molestia
92,540 corpus weight
- monitor
monitor
92,539 corpus weight
- more
more
92,538 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mo” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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) |
Dónde se sitúa “mo” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mo is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #7,460 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Is cuimhin liom bheith ar bhrollach mo mháthar.
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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- "mo" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "my". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #7,460 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.