muerte
[ˈmweɾt̪e]
The verdict
“muerte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #305. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #305
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fin de la vida, en especial de una persona
Corpus desk
Index ES-muerte · muerte · Spanish
muerte · rank #305 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #305
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mierda
Nearest frequency peer: mierda (-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 “muerte”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- cambio
cambio
99,699 corpus weight
- idea
idea
99,698 corpus weight
- mierda
mierda
99,697 corpus weight
- muerte
muerte
99,696 corpus weight
- problemas
problemas
99,695 corpus weight
- tarde
tarde
99,694 corpus weight
What this shows “muerte” 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 | muerte |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmweɾt̪e] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “muerte”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around muerte (IPA [ˈmweɾt̪e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #305 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for muerte, with forms such as "meurte", "mmuerte", and "mueret". 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, "mute", "mueve", "mugre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is muerte, spelled M-U-E-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fin de la vida, en especial de una persona
- 2Figura de un esqueleto humano que suele llevar una guadaña representando como un símbolo la muerte y la entidad responsable de llevar las almas de los difuntos al más allá.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- meurte
- mmuerte
- mueret
- muerrte
- muertte
- muetre
- murete
- umerte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of muerte - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "muerte", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (8 here; floor ≥5).