maíz
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,806
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maíz is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Zea mays) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las poáceas, originaria de América y hoy cultivada en todo el mundo como alimento. Tiene tallos erectos, en forma de caña, de hasta 3 m de altura... Pronounced [maˈis]. It ranks #4,806 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mi and más.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maíz |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈis] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maíz is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈis]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,806 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for maíz, with forms such as "amíz", "mazí", and "maízz". 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, "mi", "más", "mal", 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 maíz, spelled M-A-Í-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Zea mays) Planta anual, herbácea, de la familia de las poáceas, originaria de América y hoy cultivada en todo el mundo como alimento. Tiene tallos erectos, en forma de caña, de hasta 3 m de altura, hojas densamente apretadas que protegen las inflorescencias femeninas y un penacho terminal de flores masculinas. La espádice femenina se transforma en un fruto compuesto llamado mazorca, con los granos dispuestos en hileras sobre un eje leñoso
- 2Grano o mazorca de maíz₁, empleado como alimento
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amíz,mazí,maízz,mmaíz,míaz
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maíz
Misspelling Variants of "maíz"
Frequency rank: #4,806 in Spanish
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