maestro
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,296
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
maestro is aSpanishnoun. It means: Persona que enseña en una institución educacional. Pronounced [maˈest̪ɾo]. It ranks #1,296 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with metro and mesero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maestro |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈest̪ɾo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maestro is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈest̪ɾo]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,296 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for maestro, with forms such as "amestro", "maesrto", and "maesstro". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "metro", "mesero", "mestre", 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 maestro, spelled M-A-E-S-T-R-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona que enseña en una institución educacional.
- 2En particular, quien enseña a nivel de primaria y secundaria.
- 3Persona que imparte información y conocimientos en artes, oficios o disciplinas académicas.
- 4Persona que ha alcanzado gran conocimiento, experiencia o habilidad en un campo del saber o de la acción.
- 5Persona que dirige las operaciones de una actividad, especialmente de carácter ceremonial o público.
- 6Director de orquesta, compositor o músico.
- 7Vocativo utilizado para dirigirse a un hombre cualquiera, sobre todo si es para remarcarle un error.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amestro,maesrto,maesstro,maestor,maestrro,maesttro,maetsro,masetro,meastro,mmaestro
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maestro
Misspelling Variants of "maestro"
Frequency rank: #1,296 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: