marica
[maˈɾika]
The verdict
“marica” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,957. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,957
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hombre que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo sexo biológico
Corpus desk
Index ES-marica · marica · Spanish
marica · rank #13,957 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,957
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mara
Nearest frequency peer: mara (-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 “marica”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Luciano
Luciano
86,047 corpus weight
- mara
mara
86,045 corpus weight
- marica
marica
86,044 corpus weight
- medioambien…
medioambiental
86,043 corpus weight
- mezclas
mezclas
86,042 corpus weight
- ministerial
ministerial
86,041 corpus weight
What this shows “marica” 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 | marica |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈɾika] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,957 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “marica”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around marica (IPA [maˈɾika]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,957 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for marica, with forms such as "amrica", "mairca", and "mariac". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mica", "Mario", "Marta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is marica, spelled M-A-R-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Hombre que siente atracción sexual por personas de su mismo sexo biológico
- 2Persona que no tiene valor para enfrentarse a las dificultades o para defender sus ideas
- 3Úsase como vocativo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrica
- mairca
- mariac
- maricca
- marrica
- mmarica
- mraica
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marica - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "marica", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).