mascota
[masˈkot̪a]
The verdict
“mascota” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,700. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,700
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona, objeto o animal considerado como portador de buena suerte.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mascota · mascota · Spanish
mascota · rank #6,700 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,700
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH master
Nearest frequency peer: master (+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 “mascota”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- latinos
latinos
93,304 corpus weight
- Leal
Leal
93,303 corpus weight
- mascota
mascota
93,301 corpus weight
- master
master
93,300 corpus weight
- mentales
mentales
93,299 corpus weight
- mineral
mineral
93,298 corpus weight
What this shows “mascota” 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 | mascota |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [masˈkot̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “mascota”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mascota (IPA [masˈkot̪a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,700 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mascota, with forms such as "amscota", "macsota", and "masccota". 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, "mascotas", "maceta", "marmota", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is mascota, spelled M-A-S-C-O-T-A.
Definition
- 1Persona, objeto o animal considerado como portador de buena suerte.
- 2Personaje, generalmente no humano, que hace de emblema y representa un grupo de personas o una institución. Frecuentemente aparece en eventos, competencias o certámenes.
- 3Animal doméstico o de compañía.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amscota
- macsota
- masccota
- mascoat
- mascotta
- masctoa
- masocta
- masscota
- mmascota
- msacota
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mascota - 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 "mascota", 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).