mafia
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,325
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mafia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Organización criminal de origen siciliano, con estructura organizacional y códigos de honor estrictos. Pronounced [ˈmafja]. It ranks #6,325 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mia and mai.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mafia is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmafja]. Corpus data places it at rank #6,325 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.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for mafia, with forms such as "amfia", "mafai", and "maffia". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mia", "mai", "mala", 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 mafia, spelled M-A-F-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amfia,mafai,maffia,maifa,mfaia,mmafia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mafia
Misspelling Variants of "mafia"
Frequency rank: #6,325 in Spanish
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