mou
[mu]
The verdict
“mou” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,072) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,072
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blando.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mou · mou · Spanish
mou · rank #46,072 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,072
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mosto
Nearest frequency peer: mosto (-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 “mou”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- moscada
moscada
53,932 corpus weight
- Moscow
Moscow
53,931 corpus weight
- mosto
mosto
53,930 corpus weight
- mou
mou
53,929 corpus weight
- mísero
mísero
53,927 corpus weight
- nadan
nadan
53,926 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mou” 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 | mou |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [mu] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mou”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mou is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "Mr", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [mu]. Frequency #46,072 among 3,868 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
mou has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "Mr", "mu", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is mou, spelled M-O-U.
Definition
- 1Blando.
- 2Tierno.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).