alimentar
[alimẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“alimentar” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,510
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dar comida o alimentos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-alimentar · alimentar · Spanish
alimentar · rank #7,510 · 13 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,510
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ahorros
Nearest frequency peer: ahorros (-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 “alimentar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- afiliados
afiliados
92,494 corpus weight
- agarrar
agarrar
92,493 corpus weight
- ahorros
ahorros
92,492 corpus weight
- alimentar
alimentar
92,491 corpus weight
- Arabia
Arabia
92,489 corpus weight
- asiático
asiático
92,488 corpus weight
What this shows “alimentar” 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 | alimentar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [alimẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “alimentar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around alimentar (IPA [alimẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,510 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alimentar, with forms such as "ailmentar", "aliemntar", and "alimenatr". 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. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "aumentar", "alimento", "alimentos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 alimentar, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Dar comida o alimentos.
- 2Suministrar a algo o alguien lo necesario para su mantención y subsistencia.
- 3Alentar. Fomentar. Animar a seguir un camino u opción.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alimentar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juan alimentó a su perro con carne.
Alimenté el fuego con leña.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailmentar
- aliemntar
- alimenatr
- alimenntar
- alimentarr
- alimentra
- alimenttar
- alimetnar
- alimmentar
- alimnetar
- allimentar
- almientar
- laimentar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alimentar - 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 "alimentar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).