máquina
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,356
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
máquina is aSpanishnoun. It means: Aparato compuesto de varias partes que interactúan para la ejecución de determinada tarea que requiere cierta energía. Pronounced [ˈmakina]. It ranks #2,356 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with marina and Martina.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | máquina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmakina] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for máquina is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmakina]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,356 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for máquina, with forms such as "mmáquina", "mqáuina", and "máqiuna". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "marina", "Martina", "maquinas", 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 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 máquina, spelled M-Á-Q-U-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Aparato compuesto de varias partes que interactúan para la ejecución de determinada tarea que requiere cierta energía.
- 2Dispositivo que transfiere fuerza o movimiento.
- 3Aparato mecánico (que incluye un mecanismo o sistema para operar por sí mismo).
- 4Por antonomasia, locomotora de un tren.
- 5Vehículo automotor.
- 6Proyecto, edificio, sistema o conjunto de grandes dimensiones.
- 7Conjunto de dispositivos para realizar los cambios de escenario en un teatro durante la representación de una obra.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: mmáquina,mqáuina,máqiuna,máqquina,máquian,máquinna,máqunia,máuqina,ámquina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for máquina
Misspelling Variants of "máquina"
Frequency rank: #2,356 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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