aborigen
[aβ̞oˈɾixẽn]
The verdict
“aborigen” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #24,355. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,355
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Natural de una región o territorio, en especial si sus ascendientes también lo eran.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aborigen · aborigen · Spanish
aborigen · rank #24,355 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,355
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH Índico
Nearest frequency peer: Índico (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “aborigen”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- vértice
vértice
75,650 corpus weight
- Zelaya
Zelaya
75,648 corpus weight
- Índico
Índico
75,647 corpus weight
- aborigen
aborigen
75,646 corpus weight
- acabarán
acabarán
75,645 corpus weight
- aclaraciones
aclaraciones
75,643 corpus weight
What this shows “aborigen” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aborigen |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aβ̞oˈɾixẽn] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “aborigen”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around aborigen (IPA [aβ̞oˈɾixẽn]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,355 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for aborigen, with forms such as "abborigen", "aboirgen", and "aborgien". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "aborígenes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is aborigen, spelled A-B-O-R-I-G-E-N.
Definition
- 1Natural de una región o territorio, en especial si sus ascendientes también lo eran.
- 2En particular, nativo de una tierra del Nuevo Mundo, en oposición a los conquistadores europeos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aborigen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Nada o casi nada sabríamos de nuestras razas aborígenes, ni aún de otros pueblos cuya literatura no va más allá de 43 siglos, después de nuestra era».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abborigen
- aboirgen
- aborgien
- aboriegn
- aborigenn
- aboriggen
- aborigne
- aborrigen
- abroigen
- aobrigen
- avorigen
- baorigen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aborigen - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).