magia

[ˈmaxja]

/[ˈmaxja]/ noun

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The verdict

“magia” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,938) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#2,938
frequency rank, Spanish
3,868
“M” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Técnica que busca producir efectos sobrenaturales mediante rituales secretos o la invocación de espíritus.

Corpus desk

Index ES-magia · magia · Spanish

magia · rank #2,938 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,938
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,868
  • PHOTO-FINISH Lucas

Nearest frequency peer: Lucas (-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.

Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “magia”

Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo

corpus weight

What this shows Las barras sitúan “magia” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

magia vs mia
60% similar
magia vs mai
60% similar
magia vs mala
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for magia
PropertyValue
Headwordmagia
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmaxja]
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,938
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “magia”

Esta escala corre desde el núcleo del español cotidiano (izquierda) hasta el rastro de formas rara vez usadas (derecha).magiacae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “Lucas” (#2,937), “mantenimiento” (#2,939), “juntas” (#2,936). Entre 3,868 lemas con “M”, “magia” va en #2,938. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for magia is neighbouring look-alikes ("mia", "mai", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈmaxja]. Frequency #2,938 among 3,868 “M” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for magia, with forms such as "magai", "maggia", and "mgaia". 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, "mia", "mai", "mala", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is magia, spelled M-A-G-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Técnica que busca producir efectos sobrenaturales mediante rituales secretos o la invocación de espíritus.
  2. 2
    Por extensión, técnica de producir efectos aparentemente imposibles mediante trucos e ilusiones.
  3. 3
    Atractivo irresistible de alguna cosa o persona

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how magia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Escribió Luciano, griego, que él, con deseo de aprender el arte magia, fué a Tesalia; e que allí, deseando tornarse ave, se convirtió en asno, por industria de una moza llamada Palestra, con un cierto ungüento mágico; y que andando fecho asno, padesció muchos trabajos, hasta que después, comiendo rosas, se tornó en la primera forma de hombre, como era de…
  2. La otra manera de nigromancia, o de magia, es la que se usa y exercita con el favor y ayuda de los demonios, la qual vimos que ha muy grandes tiempos que se sabe y se a exercitado en el mundo; y de esto da testimonio la Sagrada Escriptura, assí en los magos de Faraón, en el Testamento viejo, que competían con Moysés y Aarón, como en el Testamento nuevo y…

Synonyms

brujeríahechiceríataumaturgiailusionismoprestidigitaciónencantofascinaciónhechizo

This word in other languages

magic(English)magie(Français)Magie(Deutsch)magia(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • magai
  • maggia
  • mgaia
  • mmagia

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of magia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

magai2maggia1mgaia2mmagia1
Edit distance from "magia"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "magia"?
"magia" is spelled M-A-G-I-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmaxja].
What does "magia" mean?
As a noun, "magia" means: Técnica que busca producir efectos sobrenaturales mediante rituales secretos o la invocación de espíritus.
What words are commonly confused with "magia"?
"magia" is commonly confused with "mia", "mai", "mala". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "magia"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "magia" is [ˈmaxja]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "magia" come from?
"magia" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "magia", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Lucas#2,937feria#2,933falsa#2,932drama#2,929

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list