maza
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,489
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
maza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arma antigua, hecha de palo guarnecido de hierro, o toda de hierro, con la cabeza gruesa. Pronounced [ˈmasa]. Often confused with mia and Mea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmasa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for maza is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,489 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 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 maza, with forms such as "amza", "maaz", and "mazza". 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, "mia", "Mea", "mesa", 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 maza, spelled M-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arma antigua, hecha de palo guarnecido de hierro, o toda de hierro, con la cabeza gruesa.
- 2Insignia que llevan los maceros delante de los reyes o gobernadores. También usan de ella las ciudades, universidades y otros cuerpos en los actos públicos.
- 3Ballestero de maza.
- 4Instrumento de madera dura, parecido a la maza antigua de combate, y que sirve para machacar el esparto y el lino.
- 5Pelota gruesa forrada de cuero y con mango de madera, que sirve para tocar el bombo.
- 6Pieza de madera o hierro que en el martinete sirve para golpear sobre las cabezas de los pilotes.
- 7Tronco u otra cosa pesada, en que se prende y asegura la cadena a los monos o a los micos para que no se huyan.
- 8Palo, hueso u otra cosa que por entretenimiento se suele poner en las carnestolendas atado a la cola de los perros.
- 9Trapo u otra cosa que se prende en los vestidos para burlarse de los que los llevan.
- 10En los juegos de billar y trucos, extremo más grueso de los tacos.
- 11Cubo de la rueda.
- 12Especería, droga.
- 13Persona pesada y molesta en su conversación y trato.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amza,maaz,mazza,mmaza,mzaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maza
Misspelling Variants of "maza"
Frequency rank: #19,489 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: