anual
[aˈnwal]
The verdict
“anual” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,065) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,065
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que sucede o se repite cada año.
Corpus desk
Index ES-anual · anual · Spanish
anual · rank #2,065 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,065
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alcance
Nearest frequency peer: alcance (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “anual”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- you
you
97,939 corpus weight
- actuar
actuar
97,938 corpus weight
- alcance
alcance
97,937 corpus weight
- anual
anual
97,936 corpus weight
- archivo
archivo
97,935 corpus weight
- aumentar
aumentar
97,934 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “anual” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | anual |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [aˈnwal] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “anual”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for anual is neighbouring look-alikes ("azul", "aval", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [aˈnwal]. Frequency #2,065 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for anual, with forms such as "anaul", "anuall", and "aunal". 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, "azul", "aval", "aqua", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is anual, spelled A-N-U-A-L.
Definition
- 1Que sucede o se repite cada año.
- 2Que dura un año.
- 3Que corresponde a un año.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anaul
- anuall
- aunal
- naual
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of anual - 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 "anual", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).