Amaya
[aˈmaʝa]
The verdict
“Amaya” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #27,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,476
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amaya · Amaya · Spanish
Amaya · rank #27,476 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,476
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH amargos
Nearest frequency peer: amargos (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “Amaya”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- alimentario
alimentario
72,528 corpus weight
- ally
ally
72,527 corpus weight
- amargos
amargos
72,526 corpus weight
- Amaya
Amaya
72,525 corpus weight
- amer
amer
72,524 corpus weight
- anaranjado
anaranjado
72,523 corpus weight
What this shows “Amaya” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | Amaya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [aˈmaʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #27,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Amaya”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Amaya (IPA [aˈmaʝa]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,476 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Amaya, with forms such as "aamya", "amaay", and "amayya". 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, "Amy", "aya", "away", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Amaya, spelled A-M-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamya
- amaay
- amayya
- ammaya
- amyaa
- maaya
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Amaya - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Amaya", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).