apta
[ˈapt̪a]
The verdict
“apta” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,890) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,890
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de apto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-apta · apta · Spanish
apta · rank #20,890 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,890
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH apoyaban
Nearest frequency peer: apoyaban (-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 “apta”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- anticipadas
anticipadas
79,115 corpus weight
- apoyaban
apoyaban
79,112 corpus weight
- apta
apta
79,111 corpus weight
- arribo
arribo
79,109 corpus weight
- arruina
arruina
79,108 corpus weight
- asentado
asentado
79,106 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “apta” 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 | apta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈapt̪a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “apta”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for apta is neighbouring look-alikes ("at", "art", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈapt̪a]. Frequency #20,890 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de apto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for apta, with forms such as "apat", "appta", and "aptta". 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, "at", "art", "aya", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 apta, spelled A-P-T-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de apto.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apat
- appta
- aptta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apta - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "apta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).