mata
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,618
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mata is aSpanishnoun. It means: Planta de poca altura y tallo múltiple o ramificado. Pronounced [ˈmat̪a]. It ranks #2,618 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with max and mia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mata |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmat̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mata is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,618 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for mata, with forms such as "amta", "maat", and "mmata". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "max", "mia", "may", and more, 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 mata, spelled M-A-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Planta de poca altura y tallo múltiple o ramificado.
- 2Cada una de varias plantas herbáceas que crecen juntas formando un haz apretado.
- 3Huerta de árboles de una misma especie.
- 4Lentisco (Pistacia lentiscus): arbusto dioico de la familia de las Anacardiáceas, de unos ocho metros de altura. Perennifolio, de corteza marrón rojiza, muy ramificado, hojas pinnadas, flores pequeñas de color amarillo rojizo a rojo oscuro. El fruto, de color rojo y negro, es usado como condimento y como goma de mascar (chicle). La resina de su tallo tiene uso como barniz y como materia prima en perfumería y en la industria farmacéutica. Su hábitat es la región del Mediterráneo.
- 5Por extensión, planta de cualquier tipo, ya sea herbácea, arbustiva o arbórea.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amta,maat,mmata,mtaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mata
Misspelling Variants of "mata"
Frequency rank: #2,618 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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