alimañas
[aliˈmaɲas]
The verdict
“alimañas” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #48,791. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,791
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de alimaña.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alimanas · alimañas · Spanish
alimañas · rank #48,791 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,791
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alcalina
Nearest frequency peer: alcalina (-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 “alimañas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- alargando
alargando
51,213 corpus weight
- albergó
albergó
51,212 corpus weight
- alcalina
alcalina
51,211 corpus weight
- alimañas
alimañas
51,210 corpus weight
- alió
alió
51,209 corpus weight
- alojaba
alojaba
51,208 corpus weight
What this shows “alimañas” 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 | alimañas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aliˈmaɲas] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alimañas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around alimañas (IPA [aliˈmaɲas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,791 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de alimaña.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alimañas, with forms such as "ailmañas", "aliamñas", and "alimaañs". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "alumnas", "almenas", "animadas", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is alimañas, spelled A-L-I-M-A-Ñ-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de alimaña.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailmañas
- aliamñas
- alimaañs
- alimañass
- alimañsa
- alimmañas
- alimñaas
- allimañas
- almiañas
- laimañas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alimañas - 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 "alimañas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).