mor
[ˈmoɾ]
The verdict
“mor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,081) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,081
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beneficio, causa o motivo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mor · mor · Spanish
mor · rank #28,081 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,081
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Montalvo
Nearest frequency peer: Montalvo (-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 “mor”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- moderadamen…
moderadamente
71,924 corpus weight
- monstruoso
monstruoso
71,922 corpus weight
- Montalvo
Montalvo
71,921 corpus weight
- mor
mor
71,920 corpus weight
- mostré
mostré
71,918 corpus weight
- motriz
motriz
71,917 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mor” 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 | mor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmoɾ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #28,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mor”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mor is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmoɾ]. Frequency #28,081 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Beneficio, causa o motivo.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mor in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 mor, spelled M-O-R.
Definition
- 1Beneficio, causa o motivo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
E encara quiero e mando más que todas las depdas que yo lexo escritas en mis cartas que paguen o fagan pagar o retener a mor de qualquesquiere que sea el clamant, rico o pobre, e ante d'esto que non sean recebudos en señorío. Anónimo (1227). «Pedro Ferrer, señor de Albarracín, ordena su testamento».
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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