malva
[ˈmalβ̞a]
The verdict
“malva” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,657. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,657
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Planta florada de la familia de las malváceas y la flor de dicha planta.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malva · malva · Spanish
malva · rank #46,657 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,657
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mallorquín
Nearest frequency peer: mallorquín (-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 “malva”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- lustros
lustros
53,349 corpus weight
- Malawi
Malawi
53,346 corpus weight
- mallorquín
mallorquín
53,345 corpus weight
- malva
malva
53,344 corpus weight
- mantos
mantos
53,343 corpus weight
- mantuvimos
mantuvimos
53,342 corpus weight
What this shows “malva” 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 | malva |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmalβ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “malva”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around malva (IPA [ˈmalβ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,657 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for malva, with forms such as "amlva", "malav", and "malba". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mamá", "mapa", "masa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is malva, spelled M-A-L-V-A.
Definition
- 1Planta florada de la familia de las malváceas y la flor de dicha planta.
- 2color una tonalidad del color violeta :* Color: .
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlva
- malav
- malba
- mallva
- malvva
- mavla
- mlava
- mmalva
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malva - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).