mudarvsmujerTell them apart

Quick tell: mudar is a verb, mujer is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mudar” is a verb and “mujer” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,160
“mudar” frequency rank
#217
“mujer” frequency rank
16377
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mudar mujer
Definition Dar o tomar otro ser o naturaleza, otro estado, figura, lugar, etc. Ser humano de sexo femenino.

Where the eye mixes mudar and mujer

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
mudar
5 ch
mujer

Look-alike desk: mudar vs mujer

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mudar is [muˈð̞aɾ] while mujer is [muˈxeɾ]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16377, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mudar is recorded at frequency rank #16,160, classified as averb, pronounced [muˈð̞aɾ]. mujer is at rank #217, tagged as anoun, pronounced [muˈxeɾ].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 16377, this pair ranks #276,413 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of mudar vs mujer

Shared letters: mru. Private to "mudar": ad. Private to "mujer": ej.

"mudar" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "mujer" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • mudarmduar · mmudar · muadr · mudarr · muddar · mudra · umdar
  • mujermjuer · mmujer · muejr · mujerr · mujjer · mujre · umjer

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mudar" and "mujer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mudar" is a verb and "mujer" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "mudar" or "mujer" show up more?
"mujer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #217 in our Spanish list, against #16,160 for "mudar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mudar" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mujer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #276,413 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mudar" and "mujer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mudar vs murder". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #276,413 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list