moño
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,316
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
moño is aSpanishnoun. It means: Porción de cabello que se sujeta por algún medio en la parte más cercana a la cabeza y luego se enrolla o se deja caer libremente. Se hacen por razones estéticas o de comodidad. Pronounced [ˈmoɲo]. Often confused with mor and mun.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmoɲo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for moño is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmoɲo]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,316 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for moño, with forms such as "mmoño", "mooñ", and "mñoo". 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, "mor", "mun", "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 moño, spelled M-O-Ñ-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Porción de cabello que se sujeta por algún medio en la parte más cercana a la cabeza y luego se enrolla o se deja caer libremente. Se hacen por razones estéticas o de comodidad.
- 2Por extensión, el objeto de tela o algún material elástico que se usa para sujetar el pelo.
- 3Por extensión, el conjunto de plumas que algunas aves tienen sobre la cabeza.
- 4Lazo decorativo de una cinta, funcione o no como nudo.
- 5Tipo de corbata, hoy muy formal, en que los extremos se anudan doblemente en el centro del cuello, formando un lazo.
- 6Persona fácil de ser conquistada.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoño,mooñ,mñoo,omño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moño
Misspelling Variants of "moño"
Frequency rank: #27,316 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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