mom
/mɒm/
The verdict
“mom” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,005) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,005
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mamá.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mom · mom · Spanish
mom · rank #31,005 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,005
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH minado
Nearest frequency peer: minado (-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 “mom”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- materialista
materialista
69,001 corpus weight
- minado
minado
68,997 corpus weight
- mom
mom
68,996 corpus weight
- monografía
monografía
68,995 corpus weight
- moratoria
moratoria
68,993 corpus weight
- musculoso
musculoso
68,991 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mom” 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 | mom |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɒm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mom”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mom is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /mɒm/. Frequency #31,005 among 3,868 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mom, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "mu", 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. The correct Spanish form is mom, spelled M-O-M.
Definition
- 1Mamá.
- 2Una mujer adulta propietaria de una mascota.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).