maleza
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,727
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maleza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cualquier especie vegetal, especialmente hierba o planta pequeña, que crece y se extiende de forma silvestre, en particular si su presencia o efectos contradicen los deseos humanos (en cultivos, ja... Pronounced [maˈlesa]. Often confused with maza and meza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maleza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈlesa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maleza is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈlesa]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,727 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 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 maleza, with forms such as "amleza", "maelza", and "maleaz". 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, "maza", "meza", "marea", 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 maleza, spelled M-A-L-E-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquier especie vegetal, especialmente hierba o planta pequeña, que crece y se extiende de forma silvestre, en particular si su presencia o efectos contradicen los deseos humanos (en cultivos, jardines, césped, aceras, vías, nutrición, etc.).
- 2Densidad de especies vegetales o matojos silvestres, como en barzales, jarales, matorrales, etc., y en particular de herbáceas.
- 3Enfermedad ligera o dolencia de poca trascendencia.
- 4Persona indeseable o maliciosa.
- 5Maldad o mala condición.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amleza,maelza,maleaz,malezza,malleza,malzea,mlaeza,mmaleza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "maleza"
Frequency rank: #29,727 in Spanish
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