afortunado
[afoɾt̪uˈnað̞o]
The verdict
“afortunado” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,965. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,965
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Con fortuna o buena suerte.
Corpus desk
Index ES-afortunado · afortunado · Spanish
afortunado · rank #12,965 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,965
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH afiliación
Nearest frequency peer: afiliación (-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 “afortunado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- adelantar
adelantar
87,040 corpus weight
- admirable
admirable
87,038 corpus weight
- afiliación
afiliación
87,037 corpus weight
- afortunado
afortunado
87,036 corpus weight
- Aguascalien…
Aguascalientes
87,035 corpus weight
- alcanzando
alcanzando
87,033 corpus weight
What this shows “afortunado” 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 | afortunado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [afoɾt̪uˈnað̞o] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “afortunado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around afortunado (IPA [afoɾt̪uˈnað̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,965 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 afortunado, with forms such as "affortunado", "aforrtunado", and "afortnuado". 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, "afortunados", "afortunada", "afortunadas", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 afortunado, spelled A-F-O-R-T-U-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Con fortuna o buena suerte.
- 2Feliz, que contiene, genera o proviene de la felicidad.
- 3Que ocurre o se hace de tal modo o en tal momento que genera resultados positivos.
- 4Borrascoso, tempestuoso.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how afortunado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(adjetivo): "Las personas afortunadas no solo tienen un talento natural para emplear su intuición, sino que la cultivan activamente".
(sustantivo): "La verdad es soy objetivamente un afortunado, puedo afirmar que he tenido mucha suerte".
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- affortunado
- aforrtunado
- afortnuado
- aforttunado
- afortuando
- afortunaddo
- afortunaod
- afortundao
- afortunnado
- aforutnado
- afotrunado
- afrotunado
- aofrtunado
- faortunado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of afortunado - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "afortunado", 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).