mum
/mʌm/
The verdict
“mum” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #83,200 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,200
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mamá.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mum · mum · Spanish
mum · rank #83,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,200
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mugen
Nearest frequency peer: mugen (-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 “mum”
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 “mum” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mum |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mʌm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #83,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mum” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mum is uncommon Spanish at frequency #83,200 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /mʌm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mamá.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mum, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 mum, spelled M-U-M.
Definition
- 1Mamá.
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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