moro
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,294
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
moro is anSpanishadj. It means: Originario, relativo a, o propio de la antigua Mauritania. Pronounced [ˈmoɾo]. Often confused with Mr and Mrs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | moro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈmoɾo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for moro is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmoɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #13,294 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 moro, with forms such as "mmoro", "moor", and "mroo". 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, "Mr", "Mrs", "mou", 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 moro, spelled M-O-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Originario, relativo a, o propio de la antigua Mauritania.
- 2Propio de, relativo a o devoto del Islam.
- 3Por extensión, originario del norte de África, sea cual sea su religión o etnia.
- 4Por extensión, que no es cristiano.
- 5Originario, relativo a, o propio de España.
- 6Dicho del vino: Que no lleva mezcla de agua.
- 7Dicho del pelaje del caballo: De color oscuro o negro, con pelos blancos intercalados entre los oscuros y mancha blanca en la frente o el hocico.
- 8Dicho del pelaje del caballo: De color oscuro con las patas blancas.
- 9Dicho del pelaje del caballo: De color blanco con manchas o reflejos oscuros.
- 10Dicho del pelaje del caballo: De mezcla de color alazán y blanco.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmoro,moor,mroo,omro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for moro
Misspelling Variants of "moro"
Frequency rank: #13,294 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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