maltratar
[mal̪t̪ɾaˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“maltratar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,205. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,205
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tratar mal de palabra u obra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-maltratar · maltratar · Spanish
maltratar · rank #34,205 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,205
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH maldades
Nearest frequency peer: maldades (-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 “maltratar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Lupita
Lupita
65,799 corpus weight
- maldades
maldades
65,797 corpus weight
- maltratar
maltratar
65,796 corpus weight
- manglares
manglares
65,795 corpus weight
- manzanillo
manzanillo
65,793 corpus weight
- marginalidad
marginalidad
65,792 corpus weight
What this shows “maltratar” 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 | maltratar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [mal̪t̪ɾaˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #34,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “maltratar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around maltratar (IPA [mal̪t̪ɾaˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,205 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for maltratar, with forms such as "amltratar", "malltratar", and "malrtatar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "maltrato", "maltratos", "maltrata", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is maltratar, spelled M-A-L-T-R-A-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Tratar mal de palabra u obra.
- 2Hacer daño a alguien o algo. Echarlo a perder.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amltratar
- malltratar
- malrtatar
- maltartar
- maltraatr
- maltratarr
- maltratra
- maltrattar
- maltrratar
- maltrtaar
- malttratar
- matlratar
- mlatratar
- mmaltratar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maltratar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maltratar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).