maïs éclaté
[ma.is e.kla.te]
The verdict
“maïs éclaté” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Cabritas, cancha, canchita, canguil, cocaleca, cotufas, crispetas, esquites, gallitos, maíz pira, millo, palomitas de maíz, pipoca, pochoclo, pop, popcorn, poporopo, pororó, pururú, roscas, rosetas...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maïs éclaté |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ma.is e.kla.te] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maïs éclaté” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maïs éclaté is 11 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ma.is e.kla.te]. 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: "Cabritas, cancha, canchita, canguil, cocaleca, cotufas, crispetas, esquites, gallitos, maíz pira, millo, palomitas de maíz, pipoca, pochoclo, pop, popcorn, poporopo, pororó, pururú, roscas, rosetas...".
No misspelling variants are generated for maïs éclaté 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 maïs éclaté, spelled M-A-Ï-S- -É-C-L-A-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cabritas, cancha, canchita, canguil, cocaleca, cotufas, crispetas, esquites, gallitos, maíz pira, millo, palomitas de maíz, pipoca, pochoclo, pop, popcorn, poporopo, pororó, pururú, roscas, rosetas de maíz, rositas de maíz o tostones.
Synonyms
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 “maïs éclaté”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-Ï-S- -É-C-L-A-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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