males
[ˈmales]
The verdict
“males” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,985. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,985
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de mal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-males · males · Spanish
males · rank #8,985 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,985
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mantequilla
Nearest frequency peer: mantequilla (+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 “males”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- licitación
licitación
91,020 corpus weight
- light
light
91,019 corpus weight
- Lisboa
Lisboa
91,018 corpus weight
- males
males
91,016 corpus weight
- mantequilla
mantequilla
91,015 corpus weight
- mediática
mediática
91,013 corpus weight
What this shows “males” 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 | males |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmales] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “males”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around males (IPA [ˈmales]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,985 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de mal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for males, with forms such as "amles", "maels", and "maless". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "más", "mes", "malo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is males, spelled M-A-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de mal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amles
- maels
- maless
- malles
- malse
- mlaes
- mmales
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of males - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).