Mayotte
[maˈʝot̪e]
The verdict
“Mayotte” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #77,454 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #77,454
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Territorio insular bajo protectorado de Francia, situado en el océano Índico, a medio camino entre Mozambique y la isla de Madagascar. En 1841 se convirtió en colonia francesa. Se independizó en 19...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mayotte |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [maˈʝot̪e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mayotte” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Mayotte is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈʝot̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #77,454 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Territorio insular bajo protectorado de Francia, situado en el océano Índico, a medio camino entre Mozambique y la isla de Madagascar. En 1841 se convirtió en colonia francesa. Se independizó en 19...".
Mayotte has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Mayotte, spelled M-A-Y-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Territorio insular bajo protectorado de Francia, situado en el océano Índico, a medio camino entre Mozambique y la isla de Madagascar. En 1841 se convirtió en colonia francesa. Se independizó en 1975, como parte de las islas Comoras, pero ese mismo año Francia recuperó estas islas. En 2009, el pueblo aprobó un estatuto que le da un estatus similar al de un departamento francés.
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 “Mayotte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-Y-O-T-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maˈʝot̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.