mother
/ˈmʌð.ə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“mother” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #19,808. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,808
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Madre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mother · mother · Spanish
mother · rank #19,808 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,808
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mortero
Nearest frequency peer: mortero (-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 “mother”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- morbo
morbo
80,196 corpus weight
- mordaza
mordaza
80,195 corpus weight
- mortero
mortero
80,194 corpus weight
- mother
mother
80,193 corpus weight
- negaba
negaba
80,191 corpus weight
- neutrales
neutrales
80,190 corpus weight
What this shows “mother” 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 | mother |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmʌð.ə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mother”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mother (IPA /ˈmʌð.ə(ɹ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,808 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Madre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mother, with forms such as "mmother", "mohter", and "motehr". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "motor", "mover", "mote", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is mother, spelled M-O-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Madre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mother appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmother
- mohter
- motehr
- motherr
- mothher
- mothre
- motther
- mtoher
- omther
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mother - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).