mapo

/[ˈmapo]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

mapo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Utensilio usado para barrer, limpiar y abrillantar el piso o suelo, que consiste en un palo en cuyo extremo va un paño o un conjunto de tiras de género. Pronounced [ˈmapo].

Key facts for mapo
PropertyValue
Headwordmapo
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈmapo]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mapo is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for mapo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmapo]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Utensilio usado para barrer, limpiar y abrillantar el piso o suelo, que consiste en un palo en cuyo extremo va un paño o un conjunto de tiras de género.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mapo in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 mapo, spelled M-A-P-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Utensilio usado para barrer, limpiar y abrillantar el piso o suelo, que consiste en un palo en cuyo extremo va un paño o un conjunto de tiras de género.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mapo"?
"mapo" is spelled M-A-P-O. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmapo].
What does "mapo" mean?
As a noun, "mapo" means: Utensilio usado para barrer, limpiar y abrillantar el piso o suelo, que consiste en un palo en cuyo extremo va un paño o un conjunto de tiras de género.
How do you pronounce "mapo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mapo" is [ˈmapo]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mapo" come from?
"mapo" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.