muérdago
[ˈmweɾð̞aɣ̞o]
The verdict
“muérdago” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,201 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,201
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre común de varias especies botánicas, en particular del Viscum album, planta semiparásita siempre verde, de hojas carnosas, flores amarillas y frutos blancuzcos, que vive sobre los troncos y r...
Corpus desk
Index ES-muerdago · muérdago · Spanish
muérdago · rank #83,201 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,201
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mum
Nearest frequency peer: mum (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “muérdago”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- morfar
morfar
16,805 corpus weight
- movilizadas
movilizadas
16,803 corpus weight
- mugen
mugen
16,802 corpus weight
- mum
mum
16,801 corpus weight
- muérdago
muérdago
16,800 corpus weight
- Nap
Nap
16,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “muérdago” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | muérdago |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmweɾð̞aɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “muérdago” en español
Rare enough to double-check
muérdago is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,201 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmweɾð̞aɣ̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nombre común de varias especies botánicas, en particular del Viscum album, planta semiparásita siempre verde, de hojas carnosas, flores amarillas y frutos blancuzcos, que vive sobre los troncos y r...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for muérdago in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is muérdago, spelled M-U-É-R-D-A-G-O.
Definition
- 1Nombre común de varias especies botánicas, en particular del Viscum album, planta semiparásita siempre verde, de hojas carnosas, flores amarillas y frutos blancuzcos, que vive sobre los troncos y ramas de los árboles.
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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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