mudévsmuyTell them apart

Quick tell: mudé is a verb, muy is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mudé” is a verb and “muy” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#25,724
“mudé” frequency rank
#46
“muy” frequency rank
25770
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mudé muy
Definition Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de mudar o de mudarse. Expresa grado intenso, extenso o de abundancia de la característica del adjetivo o adverbio al que precede y es caracterizado como un adverbio de cantidad o modo..

Where the eye mixes mudé and muy

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
mudé
3 ch
muy

Visual trap between mudé and muy

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: mudé is [muˈð̞e] while muy is [ˈmuj]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adverb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25770, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mudé is recorded at frequency rank #25,724, classified as averb, pronounced [muˈð̞e]. muy is at rank #46, tagged as anadv, pronounced [ˈmuj].

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 25770, this pair ranks #234,884 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of mudé vs muy

Shared letters: mu. Private to "mudé": . Private to "muy": y.

"mudé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "muy" · 3 letters · shape CVV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "mudé" and "muy" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mudé" is a verb and "muy" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "mudé" or "muy" show up more?
"muy" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #46 in our Spanish list, against #25,724 for "mudé". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "mudé" and "muy" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "mudé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "muy" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #234,884 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mudé" and "muy" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mudé vs murder". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #234,884 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