amargas
[aˈmaɾɣ̞as]
The verdict
“amargas” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #27,091 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #27,091
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del femenino plural de amargo.
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 | amargas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aˈmaɾɣ̞as] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “amargas” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for amargas is 7 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈmaɾɣ̞as]. Corpus data places it at rank #27,091 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del femenino plural de amargo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for amargas, with forms such as "aamrgas", "amagras", and "amarags". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "amigas", "amargo", "amarra", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 amargas, spelled A-M-A-R-G-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino plural de amargo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aamrgas,amagras,amarags,amargass,amarggas,amargsa,amarrgas,ammargas,amragas,maargas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amargas - 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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Using “amargas”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-M-A-R-G-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈmaɾɣ̞as] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “amigas” - see the side-by-side comparison. amargas vs amigas
- 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.