actualizar
[akt̪waliˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“actualizar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,566. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,566
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adaptar algo a los tiempos actuales, al presente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-actualizar · actualizar · Spanish
actualizar · rank #9,566 · 14 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,566
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH acercan
Nearest frequency peer: acercan (-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 “actualizar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- abandonada
abandonada
90,438 corpus weight
- aceptada
aceptada
90,437 corpus weight
- acercan
acercan
90,436 corpus weight
- actualizar
actualizar
90,435 corpus weight
- adelanto
adelanto
90,434 corpus weight
- adulta
adulta
90,433 corpus weight
What this shows “actualizar” 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 | actualizar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [akt̪waliˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “actualizar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around actualizar (IPA [akt̪waliˈsaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,566 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for actualizar, with forms such as "acctualizar", "actaulizar", and "acttualizar". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "actualizo", "actualizarse", "actualiza", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is actualizar, spelled A-C-T-U-A-L-I-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Adaptar algo a los tiempos actuales, al presente.
- 2Hacer que algo o alguien quede al día.
- 3Descargar e instalar la última versión o parche de alguna aplicación.
- 4Efectuar el acto o los actos requeridos para convertir algo potencial en real.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acctualizar
- actaulizar
- acttualizar
- actuailzar
- actualiazr
- actualizarr
- actualizra
- actualizzar
- actuallizar
- actualziar
- actulaizar
- acutalizar
- atcualizar
- catualizar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of actualizar - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "actualizar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).