major
/ma.ʒɔʁ/
The verdict
“major” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,554. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,554
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mayor (grado militar).
Corpus desk
Index ES-major · major · Spanish
major · rank #24,554 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,554
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH magistratura
Nearest frequency peer: magistratura (-2 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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “major”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- llegadas
llegadas
75,451 corpus weight
- Luque
Luque
75,450 corpus weight
- magistratura
magistratura
75,449 corpus weight
- major
major
75,447 corpus weight
- map
map
75,445 corpus weight
- maravillosa…
maravillosamente
75,444 corpus weight
What this shows “major” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | major |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ma.ʒɔʁ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “major”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around major (IPA /ma.ʒɔʁ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,554 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mayor (grado militar).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for major, with forms such as "amjor", "majjor", and "majorr". 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, "mar", "mor", "mano", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is major, spelled M-A-J-O-R.
Definition
- 1Mayor (grado militar).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amjor
- majjor
- majorr
- majro
- maojr
- mjaor
- mmajor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of major - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).