maul
[ˈmawl]
The verdict
“maul” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #99,806 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,806
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En el rugby, lance en que un grupo de jugadores rodean y empujan a un compañero que lleva el balón, protegiéndolo de la carga de los adversarios.
Corpus desk
Index ES-maul · maul · Spanish
maul · rank #99,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,806
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,142
- PHOTO-FINISH matriculada
Nearest frequency peer: matriculada (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “maul”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- masticaba
masticaba
197 corpus weight
- matriculada
matriculada
196 corpus weight
- maul
maul
195 corpus weight
- mecate
mecate
194 corpus weight
- meciéndose
meciéndose
193 corpus weight
- mejorables
mejorables
190 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “maul” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maul |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmawl] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “maul” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
maul is uncommon Spanish at frequency #99,806 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈmawl]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "En el rugby, lance en que un grupo de jugadores rodean y empujan a un compañero que lleva el balón, protegiéndolo de la carga de los adversarios.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for maul, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is maul, spelled M-A-U-L.
Definition
- 1En el rugby, lance en que un grupo de jugadores rodean y empujan a un compañero que lleva el balón, protegiéndolo de la carga de los adversarios.
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
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.