melaza
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#49,136
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
melaza is aSpanishnoun. It means: Líquido más o menos consistente, de sabor muy dulce, que subsiste como residuo de la cristalización del azúcar de caña o de la remolacha. Se usa en la fabricación de ron, y como alimento edulcorante. Pronounced [meˈlasa]. Often confused with meza and Mella.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melaza |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈlasa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for melaza is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈlasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #49,136 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for melaza, with forms such as "emlaza", "mealza", and "melaaz". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "meza", "Mella", "melena", 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 melaza, spelled M-E-L-A-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Líquido más o menos consistente, de sabor muy dulce, que subsiste como residuo de la cristalización del azúcar de caña o de la remolacha. Se usa en la fabricación de ron, y como alimento edulcorante.
- 2Heces de la miel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emlaza,mealza,melaaz,melazza,mellaza,melzaa,mleaza,mmelaza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "melaza"
Frequency rank: #49,136 in Spanish
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