animales

/[aniˈmales]/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,078

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

animales is aSpanishnoun. It means: Forma del plural de animal. Pronounced [aniˈmales]. It ranks #1,078 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with animes and ánimas.

Key facts for animales
PropertyValue
Headwordanimales
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aniˈmales]
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,078
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of animales in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for animales is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aniˈmales]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,078 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Forma del plural de animal.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for animales, with forms such as "ainmales", "aniamles", and "animaels". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "animes", "ánimas", "anuales", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is animales, spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Forma del plural de animal.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ainmales,aniamles,animaels,animaless,animalles,animalse,animlaes,animmales,anmiales,annimales,naimales

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for animales

Misspelling Variants of "animales"

ainmales8aniamles8animaels8animaless9animalles9animalse8animlaes8animmales9
Misspelling Variants of "animales"

Frequency rank: #1,078 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "animales"?
"animales" is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [aniˈmales].
What does "animales" mean?
As a noun, "animales" means: Forma del plural de animal.
What words are commonly confused with "animales"?
"animales" is commonly confused with "animes", "ánimas", "anuales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "animales"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "animales" is [aniˈmales]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "animales" come from?
"animales" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.