mueca
[ˈmweka]
The verdict
“mueca” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,752. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,752
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gesto, mímica, expresión del rostro, por lo general burlesca.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mueca · mueca · Spanish
mueca · rank #29,752 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,752
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH movilizado
Nearest frequency peer: movilizado (-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 “mueca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- monólogos
monólogos
70,253 corpus weight
- Morán
Morán
70,252 corpus weight
- movilizado
movilizado
70,250 corpus weight
- mueca
mueca
70,249 corpus weight
- muevas
muevas
70,248 corpus weight
- narrado
narrado
70,245 corpus weight
What this shows “mueca” 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 | mueca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmweka] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mueca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around mueca (IPA [ˈmweka]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,752 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Gesto, mímica, expresión del rostro, por lo general burlesca.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mueca, with forms such as "meuca", "mmueca", and "mucea". 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, "musa", "mula", "muere", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is mueca, spelled M-U-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1Gesto, mímica, expresión del rostro, por lo general burlesca.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- meuca
- mmueca
- mucea
- mueac
- muecca
- umeca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mueca - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mueca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (6 here; floor ≥5).