arrabal
[araˈβ̞al]
The verdict
“arrabal” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,885. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,885
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barrio fuera del recinto de una población o en su periferia, en especial aquél cuya población tiene un bajo nivel económico.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arrabal · arrabal · Spanish
arrabal · rank #34,885 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,885
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arquidiócesis
Nearest frequency peer: arquidiócesis (-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 “arrabal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ARN
ARN
65,118 corpus weight
- arquidióces…
arquidiócesis
65,117 corpus weight
- arrabal
arrabal
65,116 corpus weight
- arrancamos
arrancamos
65,115 corpus weight
- Arriaga
Arriaga
65,114 corpus weight
- arruga
arruga
65,113 corpus weight
What this shows “arrabal” 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 | arrabal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [araˈβ̞al] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “arrabal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around arrabal (IPA [araˈβ̞al]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,885 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for arrabal, with forms such as "arabal", "ararbal", and "arraabl". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "arriba", "arrasa", "arrasar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is arrabal, spelled A-R-R-A-B-A-L.
Definition
- 1Barrio fuera del recinto de una población o en su periferia, en especial aquél cuya población tiene un bajo nivel económico.
- 2Cualquiera de los sitios extremos de una población.
- 3Población anexa a otra mayor.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arabal
- ararbal
- arraabl
- arraball
- arrabbal
- arrabla
- arraval
- arrbaal
- rarabal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arrabal - 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 "arrabal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).