maleta
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,173
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maleta is aSpanishnoun. It means: Caja o recipiente, dotado de asas u otros medios de sujeción, empleada para transportar ropas y otros enseres en cierta cantidad durante un viaje. Pronounced [maˈlet̪a]. Often confused with mata and meta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maleta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈlet̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maleta is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈlet̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,173 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for maleta, with forms such as "amleta", "maelta", and "maleat". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mata", "meta", "multa", 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 maleta, spelled M-A-L-E-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caja o recipiente, dotado de asas u otros medios de sujeción, empleada para transportar ropas y otros enseres en cierta cantidad durante un viaje.
- 2Depósito ubicado en el automóvil para el transporte de bienes.
- 3Bolso en que niños y adolescentes llevan sus útiles escolares.
- 4Parte de atrás del cuerpo humano, desde los hombros hasta la cintura.
- 5Encorvamiento irregular de la espalda por problemas de la columna vertebral.
- 6Tipo de pan con relleno de diferentes carnes.
- 7Fajo o paquete, grupo considerable de objetos puestos juntos para su acarreo.
- 8Relieve que forman los genitales masculinos cuando se lleva ropa ceñida.
- 9Nombre dado al trasero de una persona, particularmente el de las mujeres.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amleta,maelta,maleat,maletta,malleta,maltea,mlaeta,mmaleta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maleta
Misspelling Variants of "maleta"
Frequency rank: #10,173 in Spanish
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