murió
[muˈɾjo]
The verdict
“murió” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,176. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,176
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse.
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 | murió |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [muˈɾjo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “murió” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around murió (IPA [muˈɾjo]), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,176 among 36,142 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for murió, with forms such as "mmurió", "mruió", and "muiró". 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, "muro", "museo", "muros", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is murió, spelled M-U-R-I-Ó.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de morir o de morirse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmurió
- mruió
- muiró
- murrió
- murói
- umrió
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of murió - 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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Using “murió”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-U-R-I-Ó - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [muˈɾjo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “muro” - see the side-by-side comparison. murió vs muro
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.