malicioso
[maliˈsjoso]
The verdict
“malicioso” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,832
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona que asigna mala intención a dichos o hechos ajenos
Corpus desk
Index ES-malicioso · malicioso · Spanish
malicioso · rank #28,832 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,832
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH malignos
Nearest frequency peer: malignos (+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 “malicioso”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Ludwig
Ludwig
71,174 corpus weight
- magnifica
magnifica
71,171 corpus weight
- malicioso
malicioso
71,169 corpus weight
- malignos
malignos
71,168 corpus weight
- mauri
mauri
71,165 corpus weight
- medusa
medusa
71,164 corpus weight
What this shows “malicioso” 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 | malicioso |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [maliˈsjoso] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,832 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “malicioso”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around malicioso (IPA [maliˈsjoso]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,832 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for malicioso, with forms such as "amlicioso", "mailcioso", and "malciioso". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "maliciosos", "maliciosa", 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. The correct Spanish form is malicioso, spelled M-A-L-I-C-I-O-S-O.
Definition
- 1Persona que asigna mala intención a dichos o hechos ajenos
- 2Que posee malicia
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlicioso
- mailcioso
- malciioso
- maliccioso
- malicioos
- maliciosso
- malicisoo
- malicoiso
- maliicoso
- malisioso
- mallicioso
- mlaicioso
- mmalicioso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malicioso - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).