arruinar
[arwiˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“arruinar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #10,975. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,975
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causar destrucción y ruina.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arruinar · arruinar · Spanish
arruinar · rank #10,975 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,975
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arquero
Nearest frequency peer: arquero (-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 “arruinar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- analizando
analizando
89,029 corpus weight
- anunciaron
anunciaron
89,028 corpus weight
- arquero
arquero
89,027 corpus weight
- arruinar
arruinar
89,026 corpus weight
- asesina
asesina
89,025 corpus weight
- aspirantes
aspirantes
89,024 corpus weight
What this shows “arruinar” 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 | arruinar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [arwiˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “arruinar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around arruinar (IPA [arwiˈnaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,975 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for arruinar, with forms such as "arriunar", "arruianr", and "arruinarr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "arruinó", "arruinaron", "arruina", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is arruinar, spelled A-R-R-U-I-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Causar destrucción y ruina.
- 2Causar un desastre económico a personas, empresas o países.
- 3Causarle un daño muy grande a algo material o inmaterial.
- 4Dicho de una persona, causarle un grave daño moral.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arruinar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El terremoto de Chillán en 1939 arruinó la ciudad que hubo que reconstruir en otro emplazamiento, y ostenta el triste récord de víctimas fatales en la historia de los terremotos de Chile: 24.000.
De aquí que cuando en 1846 se produjo una plaga que arruinó la cosecha de patata, la mayor parte de la población rural se quedo sin alimentos.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arriunar
- arruianr
- arruinarr
- arruinnar
- arruinra
- arruniar
- aruinar
- arurinar
- raruinar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arruinar - 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 "arruinar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).