mote
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#27,313
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mote is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sobrenombre que se le da a una persona, ya sea de forma despectiva o familiar, que deriva de una cualidad (atributo o defecto) física o psíquica, o una circunstancia. Pronounced [ˈmot̪e]. Often confused with mou and moto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mote |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmot̪e] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mote is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,313 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mote, with forms such as "mmote", "moet", and "motte". 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, "mou", "moto", "mozo", 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 mote, spelled M-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sobrenombre que se le da a una persona, ya sea de forma despectiva o familiar, que deriva de una cualidad (atributo o defecto) física o psíquica, o una circunstancia.
- 2Lema que llevaban como empresa los antiguos caballeros en las justas y torneos.
- 3Versos que son objeto de glosa en una justa poética.
- 4Sentencia breve que incluye un secreto o misterio que necesita explicación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmote,moet,motte,mtoe,omte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mote
Misspelling Variants of "mote"
Frequency rank: #27,313 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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