ama
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,328
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ama is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mujer casada responsable del hogar. Pronounced [ˈama]. It ranks #2,328 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ay and as.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈama] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #2,328 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ama is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈama]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,328 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ama in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ama, spelled A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mujer casada responsable del hogar.
- 2Criada encargada del resto de la servidumbre.
- 3Mujer que amamanta a un niño ajeno.
- 4Mujer encargada de criar y educar niños ajenos.
- 5Regenta de un prostíbulo.
- 6Esposa del amo.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #2,328 in Spanish
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