nixtamal
The verdict
“nixtamal” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #94,397 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #94,397
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Maíz cocido que se muele y amasa para elaborar tortillas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nixtamal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nikst̪aˈmal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nixtamal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for nixtamal is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [nikst̪aˈmal]. Corpus data places it at rank #94,397 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Maíz cocido que se muele y amasa para elaborar tortillas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for nixtamal in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 nixtamal, spelled N-I-X-T-A-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maíz cocido que se muele y amasa para elaborar tortillas.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #94,397 in Spanish
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Using “nixtamal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-I-X-T-A-M-A-L — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [nikst̪aˈmal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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