mita
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#40,401
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mita is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sistema de trabajo obligatorio utilizado en la Región Andina por los colonizadores españoles, en el que se determinaba por sorteo el reparto de los indios como fuerza laboral para la obra pública. Pronounced [ˈmit̪a]. Often confused with mix and moda.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmit̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #40,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mita is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmit̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,401 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 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for mita, with forms such as "imta", "miat", and "mitta". 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, "mix", "moda", "moto", 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 mita, spelled M-I-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sistema de trabajo obligatorio utilizado en la Región Andina por los colonizadores españoles, en el que se determinaba por sorteo el reparto de los indios como fuerza laboral para la obra pública.
- 2Antiguo impuesto que pagaban los indios en el Virreinato del Alto Perú.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: imta,miat,mitta,mmita,mtia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mita
Misspelling Variants of "mita"
Frequency rank: #40,401 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Spanish index: