maravilla
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,227
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
maravilla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acontecimiento o cosa impresionante que provoca admiración. Pronounced [maɾaˈβ̞iʝa]. It ranks #5,227 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with maravillas and maravillosa.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maravilla is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for maravilla, with forms such as "amravilla", "maarvilla", and "marabilla". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "maravillas", "maravillosa", "maravillado", 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 maravilla, spelled M-A-R-A-V-I-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amravilla,maarvilla,marabilla,maraivlla,maravila,maravilal,maravlila,maravvilla,marravilla,marvailla,mmaravilla,mraavilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maravilla
Misspelling Variants of "maravilla"
Frequency rank: #5,227 in Spanish
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