mayoral
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,139
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
mayoral is aSpanishnoun. It means: Pastor principal que cuida los rebaños o cabañas. Pronounced [maʝoˈɾal]. Often confused with moral and Mayra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mayoral |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maʝoˈɾal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mayoral is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maʝoˈɾal]. Corpus data places it at rank #35,139 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for mayoral, with forms such as "amyoral", "maoyral", and "mayoarl". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "moral", "Mayra", "mayoría", 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 mayoral, spelled M-A-Y-O-R-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pastor principal que cuida los rebaños o cabañas.
- 2En las galeras, diligencias y otros carruajes, quien gobierna el tiro de mulas o caballos.
- 3En las cuadrillas de cavadores o de segadores, quien hace de cabeza o capataz.
- 4En las labranzas y en las cabañas de mulas, cabeza o capataz que manda a los otros mozos.
- 5Mampostero₂.
- 6En los hospitales de San Lárazo, quien administra o gobierna.
- 7En el mundo de los pastores el mayoral es el encargado de todo, incluso de los salarios. Señala los chozos de verano, fabrica los necesarios. Es la máxima autoridad.
- 8Alguacil₁.
- 9Corregidor₂.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amyoral,maoyral,mayoarl,mayorall,mayorla,mayorral,mayroal,mayyoral,mmayoral,myaoral
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mayoral
Misspelling Variants of "mayoral"
Frequency rank: #35,139 in Spanish
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