animal
[aniˈmal]
The verdict
“animal” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,836
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ser vivo, generalmente con capacidad de movimiento y con menor inteligencia que los humanos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-animal · animal · Spanish
animal · rank #1,836 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,836
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alcanzar
Nearest frequency peer: alcanzar (-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 “animal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- venga
venga
98,168 corpus weight
- alcanzar
alcanzar
98,166 corpus weight
- animal
animal
98,165 corpus weight
- aparte
aparte
98,164 corpus weight
- Bolivia
Bolivia
98,163 corpus weight
- ciudadano
ciudadano
98,162 corpus weight
What this shows “animal” 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 | animal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aniˈmal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “animal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around animal (IPA [aniˈmal]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,836 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for animal, with forms such as "ainmal", "aniaml", and "animall". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "anual", "ánimo", "anime", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is animal, spelled A-N-I-M-A-L.
Definition
- 1Ser vivo, generalmente con capacidad de movimiento y con menor inteligencia que los humanos.
- 2Seres vivos que pertenece a un grupo de eucariontes, pluricelulares y heterótrofos.
- 3Ser irracional en oposición al hombre.
- 4Animal cuadrúpedo doméstico, principalmente los vacunos.
- 5Persona torpe, sin inteligencia, racionalidad o delicadeza.
- 6Persona muy habilidosa o de gran destreza.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how animal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vamos a arrancar hablando sobre un animal de la comunicación política (Massa). (...) Y les voy a justificar por qué me parece un animal. (...) Básicamente ayer Massa estuvo con Majul, y en esa entrevista hubo un control por parte del entrevistado (Massa). (...) Me pareció muy interesante por parte de Massa acudir a esta clase de entrevistas que son hostil…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ainmal
- aniaml
- animall
- animla
- animmal
- anmial
- annimal
- naimal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of animal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "animal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).