maravilla
[maɾaˈβ̞iʝa]
The verdict
“maravilla” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #5,227 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #5,227
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Acontecimiento o cosa impresionante que provoca admiración.
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 | maravilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maɾaˈβ̞iʝa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maravilla” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maravilla is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maɾaˈβ̞iʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,227 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for maravilla, with forms such as "amravilla", "maarvilla", and "marabilla". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maravillas", "maravillosa", "maravillado", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is maravilla, spelled M-A-R-A-V-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Acontecimiento o cosa impresionante que provoca admiración.
- 2Acción o efecto de maravillar o de maravillarse.
- 3(Calendula officinalis) Planta herbácea compuesta, de flores terminales color naranja, cuyo conocimiento se usa como antiespasmódico en medicina.
- 4(Ipomoea imperati, y Convolvulus tricolor) Nombre común de varias plantas perennes de la familia de las convolvuláceas, trepadora (enredadera), de hojas ovadas, flores tubulosas de color azul purpúreo o blanco y de frutos en cápsula, de uso para ornamental.
- 5(Mirabilis jalapa) Planta nictaginácea de flores blancas, rojizas o amarillas, originaria del Perú. Sus flores se abren por la noche y se cierran durante el día. Tiene carnosas raíces tuberosas y puede alcanzar entre 60 a 150 cm de altura.
- 6(Helianthus annuus) Planta de la familia de las asteráceas, herbácea, anual, originaria de América, de tallo alto y erecto y característica inflorescencia amarilla en forma de disco. Sus semillas comestibles se aprovechan para la extracción de aceite.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amravilla,maarvilla,marabilla,maraivlla,maravila,maravilal,maravlila,maravvilla,marravilla,marvailla,mmaravilla,mraavilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maravilla - 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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Using “maravilla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-R-A-V-I-L-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maɾaˈβ̞iʝa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “maravillas” - see the side-by-side comparison. maravilla vs maravillas
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.