mazorca
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,532
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
mazorca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Fruto o espiga gruesa de algunas gramíneas (familia Poaceae), especialmente la del maíz. Pronounced [maˈsoɾka]. Often confused with Menorca and marca.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mazorca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈsoɾka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mazorca is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈsoɾka]. Corpus data places it at rank #48,532 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 mazorca, with forms such as "amzorca", "maozrca", and "mazocra". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Menorca", "marca", "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 mazorca, spelled M-A-Z-O-R-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fruto o espiga gruesa de algunas gramíneas (familia Poaceae), especialmente la del maíz.
- 2Por metonimia, corazón de la mazorca de maíz, sin los granos.
- 3Por extensión, mazorca con los granos de maíz aún suaves o tiernos.
- 4Fruto carnoso del cacao, con semillas rodeadas de pulpa.
- 5Porción de lino ya hilado.
- 6En herrería, decorado (moldura) que se hace a las barandas (columnas, barrotes), con una parte gruesa en el centro, que se va haciendo delgado hacia los extremos.
- 7Grupo de amigos o personas con una relación estrecha entre sí.
- 8Conjunto de dientes de una persona o animal.
- 9Instrumento de viento para tocar música, que consiste en un caja pequeña y alargada con una serie de orificios a través de los cuales se sopla y aspira alternativamente.
- 10Órgano sexual del hombre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amzorca,maozrca,mazocra,mazorac,mazorcca,mazorrca,mazroca,mazzorca,mmazorca,mzaorca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mazorca
Misspelling Variants of "mazorca"
Frequency rank: #48,532 in Spanish
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