malos
[ˈmalos]
The verdict
“malos” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #2,121. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,121
- 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 masculino plural de malo o mal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malos · malos · Spanish
malos · rank #2,121 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,121
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH lluvia
Nearest frequency peer: lluvia (-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 “malos”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- labor
labor
97,883 corpus weight
- letra
letra
97,882 corpus weight
- lluvia
lluvia
97,881 corpus weight
- malos
malos
97,880 corpus weight
- marido
marido
97,879 corpus weight
- modelos
modelos
97,878 corpus weight
What this shows “malos” 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 | malos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmalos] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “malos”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around malos (IPA [ˈmalos]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,121 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del masculino plural de malo o mal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for malos, with forms such as "amlos", "mallos", and "maloss". 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", "mano", "mayo", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is malos, spelled M-A-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del masculino plural de malo o mal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlos
- mallos
- maloss
- malso
- maols
- mlaos
- mmalos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malos - 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).