abreviar
[aβ̞ɾeˈβ̞jaɾ]
The verdict
“abreviar” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #49,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,375
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer más corto; disminuir en tiempo, duración, espacio o extensión.
Corpus desk
Index ES-abreviar · abreviar · Spanish
abreviar · rank #49,375 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,375
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH abrazaron
Nearest frequency peer: abrazaron (-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 “abreviar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- abrace
abrace
50,629 corpus weight
- abrasador
abrasador
50,628 corpus weight
- abrazaron
abrazaron
50,627 corpus weight
- abreviar
abreviar
50,626 corpus weight
- acabase
acabase
50,625 corpus weight
- acentuada
acentuada
50,624 corpus weight
What this shows “abreviar” 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 | abreviar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [aβ̞ɾeˈβ̞jaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “abreviar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around abreviar (IPA [aβ̞ɾeˈβ̞jaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,375 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for abreviar, with forms such as "abbreviar", "aberviar", and "abrebiar". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "atrevía", "apreciar", "abreviado", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is abreviar, spelled A-B-R-E-V-I-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer más corto; disminuir en tiempo, duración, espacio o extensión.
- 2Hacer más corta la grafía de una palabra mediante abreviación, abreviatura, acortamiento, acrónimo, contracción, etc.
- 3Acelerar el ritmo de un proceso para finalizarlo antes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how abreviar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y así, fatigado deste pensamiento, abrevió su venteril y limitada cena;
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbreviar
- aberviar
- abrebiar
- abreivar
- abrevair
- abreviarr
- abrevira
- abrevviar
- abrreviar
- abrveiar
- arbeviar
- avreviar
- bareviar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of abreviar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).