Afganistán
[afɣ̞anisˈt̪ãn]
The verdict
“Afganistán” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,811
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - País localizado en Asia. Limita con Irán al oeste, con Pakistán al sur y al este, con Turkmenistán, Uzbekistán y Tayikistán en el norte y con China en el extremo más oriental de su territorio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-afganistan · Afganistán · Spanish
Afganistán · rank #7,811 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,811
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 120,137
- PHOTO-FINISH acogida
Nearest frequency peer: acogida (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Afganistán”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- abandona
abandona
92,193 corpus weight
- abogada
abogada
92,192 corpus weight
- acogida
acogida
92,191 corpus weight
- Afganistán
Afganistán
92,190 corpus weight
- afición
afición
92,189 corpus weight
- Aguilar
Aguilar
92,188 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Afganistán” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Afganistán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [afɣ̞anisˈt̪ãn] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Afganistán” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around Afganistán (IPA [afɣ̞anisˈt̪ãn]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,811 among 120,137 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "País localizado en Asia. Limita con Irán al oeste, con Pakistán al sur y al este, con Turkmenistán, Uzbekistán y Tayikistán en el norte y con China en el extremo más oriental de su territorio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for Afganistán, with forms such as "afagnistán", "affganistán", and "afgainstán". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is Afganistán, spelled A-F-G-A-N-I-S-T-Á-N.
Definition
- 1País localizado en Asia. Limita con Irán al oeste, con Pakistán al sur y al este, con Turkmenistán, Uzbekistán y Tayikistán en el norte y con China en el extremo más oriental de su territorio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afagnistán
- affganistán
- afgainstán
- afganisstán
- afganistná
- afganisttán
- afganistánn
- afganisátn
- afganitsán
- afgannistán
- afgansitán
- afgganistán
- afgnaistán
- agfanistán
- faganistán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Afganistán - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Afganistán", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).
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.