maíllo
[maˈiʝo]
The verdict
“maíllo” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Malus sylvestris) Arbusto de copa redondeada y tronco corto con ramas espinosas. Las hojas son simples alternas y caedizas de margen aserrado. Las inflorecencias, en cimas poco nutridas con con tr...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maíllo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈiʝo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maíllo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maíllo is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈiʝo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(Malus sylvestris) Arbusto de copa redondeada y tronco corto con ramas espinosas. Las hojas son simples alternas y caedizas de margen aserrado. Las inflorecencias, en cimas poco nutridas con con tr...".
No misspelling variants are generated for maíllo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 maíllo, spelled M-A-Í-L-L-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Malus sylvestris) Arbusto de copa redondeada y tronco corto con ramas espinosas. Las hojas son simples alternas y caedizas de margen aserrado. Las inflorecencias, en cimas poco nutridas con con tres u ocho flores, blancas, manchadas de rosa. El fruto es la maílla, una pequeña manzana amarillenta.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “maíllo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-Í-L-L-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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