maracas
[maˈɾakas]
The verdict
“maracas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,048. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,048
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de maraca.
Corpus desk
Index ES-maracas · maracas · Spanish
maracas · rank #46,048 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,048
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH manejaron
Nearest frequency peer: manejaron (-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 “maracas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- locus
locus
53,958 corpus weight
- mamado
mamado
53,955 corpus weight
- manejaron
manejaron
53,954 corpus weight
- maracas
maracas
53,953 corpus weight
- Marks
Marks
53,950 corpus weight
- means
means
53,948 corpus weight
What this shows “maracas” 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 | maracas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈɾakas] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “maracas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around maracas (IPA [maˈɾakas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,048 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de maraca.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for maracas, with forms such as "amracas", "maarcas", and "maraacs". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "marca", "Marcos", "marcar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 maracas, spelled M-A-R-A-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de maraca.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amracas
- maarcas
- maraacs
- maracass
- maraccas
- maracsa
- marcaas
- marracas
- mmaracas
- mraacas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maracas - 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 "maracas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).