mafia
[ˈmafja]
The verdict
“mafia” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,325. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,325
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organización criminal de origen siciliano, con estructura organizacional y códigos de honor estrictos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mafia · mafia · Spanish
mafia · rank #6,325 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,325
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH llaves
Nearest frequency peer: llaves (-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 “mafia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- life
life
93,679 corpus weight
- litros
litros
93,678 corpus weight
- llaves
llaves
93,677 corpus weight
- mafia
mafia
93,676 corpus weight
- mensuales
mensuales
93,675 corpus weight
- migrantes
migrantes
93,674 corpus weight
What this shows “mafia” 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 | mafia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmafja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,325 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mafia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around mafia (IPA [ˈmafja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,325 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for mafia, with forms such as "amfia", "mafai", and "maffia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mia", "mai", "mala", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is mafia, spelled M-A-F-I-A.
Definition
- 1Organización criminal de origen siciliano, con estructura organizacional y códigos de honor estrictos.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier organización criminal.
- 3Grupo de personas que se organiza veladamente para proteger sus intereses.
- 4Grupo de personas que controla completamente una actividad o negocio impidiendo cualquier competencia.
- 5Acción que lleva al engaño a una persona para aprovecharse de ella.
- 6Juego de cartas en donde secretamente uno o más jugadores deben hacer de mafia (asesinos). En cada ronda estos deben eliminar a alguno de los demás jugadores, y luego, entre los restantes, se hace una votación para explusar al principal sospechoso. Termina cuando se logra echar a todos los que son mafia o bien cuando queda la misma cantidad de mafias que de jugadores corrientes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amfia
- mafai
- maffia
- maifa
- mfaia
- mmafia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mafia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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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).