motel
[moˈt̪el]
The verdict
“motel” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,130. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,130
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Especie de hotel con la particularidad de tener entradas independientes para cada huésped y lugar para estacionar el vehículo cerca de las mismas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-motel · motel · Spanish
motel · rank #20,130 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,130
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mugre
Nearest frequency peer: mugre (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “motel”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- mitigar
mitigar
79,875 corpus weight
- monde
monde
79,874 corpus weight
- morirá
morirá
79,873 corpus weight
- motel
motel
79,871 corpus weight
- mugre
mugre
79,870 corpus weight
- Nariño
Nariño
79,867 corpus weight
What this shows “motel” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | motel |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [moˈt̪el] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “motel”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around motel (IPA [moˈt̪el]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,130 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for motel, with forms such as "mmotel", "moetl", and "motell". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "moto", "move", "mute", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is motel, spelled M-O-T-E-L.
Definition
- 1Especie de hotel con la particularidad de tener entradas independientes para cada huésped y lugar para estacionar el vehículo cerca de las mismas.
- 2Hotel por horas en el que las parejas tienen relaciones sexuales.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmotel
- moetl
- motell
- motle
- mottel
- mtoel
- omtel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of motel - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).