Mauritania
[mawɾiˈt̪anja]
The verdict
“Mauritania” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,062
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - País de África del norte o Magreb. Limita con el océano Atlántico, el Sahara Occidental, Argelia, Malí y Senegal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mauritania |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [mawɾiˈt̪anja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mauritania” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Mauritania (IPA [mawɾiˈt̪anja]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,062 among 36,142 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "País de África del norte o Magreb. Limita con el océano Atlántico, el Sahara Occidental, Argelia, Malí y Senegal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mauritania, with forms such as "amuritania", "maruitania", and "mauirtania". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Mauritania, spelled M-A-U-R-I-T-A-N-I-A.
Definition
- 1País de África del norte o Magreb. Limita con el océano Atlántico, el Sahara Occidental, Argelia, Malí y Senegal.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amuritania
- maruitania
- mauirtania
- mauriatnia
- mauritaina
- mauritanai
- mauritannia
- mauritnaia
- maurittania
- maurritania
- maurtiania
- mmauritania
- muaritania
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mauritania - 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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Using “Mauritania”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-U-R-I-T-A-N-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [mawɾiˈt̪anja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.