malicia
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,418
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
malicia is aSpanishnoun. It means: Calidad de malo. Pronounced [maˈlisja]. Often confused with marica and Marcia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malicia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈlisja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for malicia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈlisja]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,418 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for malicia, with forms such as "amlicia", "mailcia", and "malciia". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "marica", "Marcia", "milicia", 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 malicia, spelled M-A-L-I-C-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Calidad de malo.
- 2Inclinación a lo malo y contrario a la virtud.
- 3Perversidad del que peca por malignidad.
- 4Cierta solapa y bellaquería con que se hace o dice una cosa, ocultando la intención con que se procede.
- 5Interpretación siniestra y maliciosa; propensión a pensar mal.
- 6Calidad que hace una cosa perjudicial y maligna.
- 7Penetración, sutileza, sagacidad.
- 8Licor o bebida alcohólica que se le agrega a otra bebida como el café o jugo de frutas.
- 9Sospecha o recelo.
- 10Palabra satírica; sentencia picante y ofensiva.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amlicia,mailcia,malciia,malicai,maliccia,maliica,malisia,mallicia,mlaicia,mmalicia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for malicia
Misspelling Variants of "malicia"
Frequency rank: #20,418 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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