maya
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,410
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maya is anSpanishadj. It means: Se dice de la persona perteneciente a la cultura mesoamericana precolombina que habitó el sureste de México y Centroamérica entre los siglos IV y X a.C., o descendiente de aquella gente. Pronounced [ˈmaʝa]. It ranks #5,410 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with my and muy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈmaʝa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maya is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,410 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for maya, with forms such as "amya", "maay", and "mayya". 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, "my", "muy", "mia", 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 maya, spelled M-A-Y-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dice de la persona perteneciente a la cultura mesoamericana precolombina que habitó el sureste de México y Centroamérica entre los siglos IV y X a.C., o descendiente de aquella gente.
- 2Se dice de algo que proviene o tiene relación con la cultura mesoamericana precolombina que habitó el sureste de México y Centroamérica entre los siglos IV y X a.C.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amya,maay,mayya,mmaya,myaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maya
Misspelling Variants of "maya"
Frequency rank: #5,410 in Spanish
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