malayo
[maˈlaʝo]
The verdict
“malayo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,217
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a un pueblo austronesio que habita el archipiélago y la península de Malasia, en el sudeste asiático.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malayo · malayo · Spanish
malayo · rank #33,217 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,217
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH malabares
Nearest frequency peer: malabares (-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 “malayo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Mafalda
Mafalda
66,787 corpus weight
- majestuosa
majestuosa
66,786 corpus weight
- malabares
malabares
66,785 corpus weight
- malayo
malayo
66,784 corpus weight
- mam
mam
66,783 corpus weight
- manifieste
manifieste
66,782 corpus weight
What this shows “malayo” 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 | malayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [maˈlaʝo] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “malayo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around malayo (IPA [maˈlaʝo]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #33,217 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 malayo, with forms such as "amlayo", "maalyo", and "malaoy". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mayo", "malo", "matado", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is malayo, spelled M-A-L-A-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a un pueblo austronesio que habita el archipiélago y la península de Malasia, en el sudeste asiático.
- 2Originario, relativo a, o propio de Malasia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how malayo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entre éstos había también su diferencia, porque los tagalos, que son los naturales de Manila y su comarca, eran malayos, venidos los más, según ellos decían, de Borney que también es isla y mayor que ninguna de estas Filipinas y más cercana á la tierra firme de Malaca, donde está una comarca llamada Malayos, que es el origen de todos los malayos que están…
Sin embargo, según información del ACNUR, tras la adopción del ‘Comprehensive Plan of Action’ en 1989, algunos botes llenos de refugiados vietnamitas son rechazados por las autoridades malayas y reenviados a la mar.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlayo
- maalyo
- malaoy
- malayyo
- mallayo
- malyao
- mlaayo
- mmalayo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malayo - 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
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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).