Mr
/ˈmɪstəɹ/
The verdict
“Mr” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,178) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,178
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sr., abreviatura de mister.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mr · Mr · Spanish
Mr · rank #4,178 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,178
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mover
Nearest frequency peer: mover (-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 “Mr”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Lorenzo
Lorenzo
95,826 corpus weight
- min
min
95,825 corpus weight
- mover
mover
95,824 corpus weight
- Mr
Mr
95,823 corpus weight
- muchacho
muchacho
95,822 corpus weight
- naranja
naranja
95,821 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Mr” 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 | Mr |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | /ˈmɪstəɹ/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #4,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Mr”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Mr is neighbouring look-alikes ("my", "mu", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced /ˈmɪstəɹ/. Frequency #4,178 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Sr., abreviatura de mister.".
Mr has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "my", "mu", "muy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Mr, spelled M-R.
Definition
- 1Sr., abreviatura de mister.
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.