# mam vs man

> Spanish confusable word pair

## The two words

### mam
*noun · IPA /mam/ · frequency rank #33,218*
Ancestro.

### man
*noun · IPA [ˈmãn] · frequency rank #2,571*
Variante obsoleta de mano.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/es/vs/mam-vs-man