armadillo
[aɾmaˈð̞iʝo]
The verdict
“armadillo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #46,335. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,335
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Familia de mamíferos placentarios del orden Cingulata. Se caracterizan por poseer un caparazón dorsal formado por las placas yuxtapuestas, ordenadas por lo general en filas transversales, con cola ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-armadillo · armadillo · Spanish
armadillo · rank #46,335 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,335
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH apuntalar
Nearest frequency peer: apuntalar (-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 “armadillo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- apostasía
apostasía
53,669 corpus weight
- aprovechemos
aprovechemos
53,668 corpus weight
- apuntalar
apuntalar
53,667 corpus weight
- armadillo
armadillo
53,666 corpus weight
- armen
armen
53,665 corpus weight
- arrendatari…
arrendatarios
53,663 corpus weight
What this shows “armadillo” 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 | armadillo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾmaˈð̞iʝo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #46,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “armadillo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around armadillo (IPA [aɾmaˈð̞iʝo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,335 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Familia de mamíferos placentarios del orden Cingulata. Se caracterizan por poseer un caparazón dorsal formado por las placas yuxtapuestas, ordenadas por lo general en filas transversales, con cola ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for armadillo, with forms such as "amradillo", "aramdillo", and "armaddillo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "amarillo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is armadillo, spelled A-R-M-A-D-I-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Familia de mamíferos placentarios del orden Cingulata. Se caracterizan por poseer un caparazón dorsal formado por las placas yuxtapuestas, ordenadas por lo general en filas transversales, con cola bastante larga y extremidades cortas.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amradillo
- aramdillo
- armaddillo
- armadilo
- armadilol
- armadlilo
- armaidllo
- armdaillo
- armmadillo
- arrmadillo
- ramadillo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of armadillo - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).