adicional
[að̞isjoˈnal]
The verdict
“adicional” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #3,753 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #3,753
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que se agrega
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 | adicional |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [að̞isjoˈnal] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adicional” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adicional is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞isjoˈnal]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,753 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "que se agrega".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for adicional, with forms such as "adciional", "addicional", and "adiccional". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "adiciones", "adicionales", "adición", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is adicional, spelled A-D-I-C-I-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1que se agrega
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: adciional,addicional,adiccional,adicinoal,adicioanl,adicionall,adicionla,adicionnal,adicoinal,adiiconal,adisional,aidcional,daicional
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adicional - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “adicional”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-I-C-I-O-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞isjoˈnal] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “adiciones” - see the side-by-side comparison. adicional vs adiciones
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.