malaya
[maˈlaʝa]
The verdict
“malaya” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #35,133. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,133
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Úsase para expresar el deseo de que algo ocurra..
Corpus desk
Index ES-malaya · malaya · Spanish
malaya · rank #35,133 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,133
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH madrugar
Nearest frequency peer: madrugar (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “malaya”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- mach
mach
64,871 corpus weight
- madrugar
madrugar
64,869 corpus weight
- malaya
malaya
64,868 corpus weight
- maldiciones
maldiciones
64,867 corpus weight
- mantengamos
mantengamos
64,866 corpus weight
- mantuve
mantuve
64,865 corpus weight
What this shows “malaya” 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 | malaya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [maˈlaʝa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “malaya”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around malaya (IPA [maˈlaʝa]), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #35,133 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for malaya, with forms such as "amlaya", "maalya", and "malaay". 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, "maya", "Malta", "malla", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is malaya, spelled M-A-L-A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Úsase para expresar el deseo de que algo ocurra..
- 2Úsase para expresar disgusto o desazón por un suceso..
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malaya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¡Ah malaya una escopeta para bajarte de un tiro!
‘Malaya mi suerte de tener pariente tan prestigioso aquí’, pienso para mis adentros.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlaya
- maalya
- malaay
- malayya
- mallaya
- malyaa
- mlaaya
- mmalaya
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malaya - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "malaya", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).