asimilar
[asimiˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“asimilar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,600
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer semejante, comparable.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asimilar · asimilar · Spanish
asimilar · rank #17,600 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,600
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arrepentido
Nearest frequency peer: arrepentido (-2 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 “asimilar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- armenio
armenio
82,405 corpus weight
- arrepentido
arrepentido
82,403 corpus weight
- asimilar
asimilar
82,401 corpus weight
- atrapa
atrapa
82,399 corpus weight
- automotriz
automotriz
82,398 corpus weight
- avisado
avisado
82,397 corpus weight
What this shows “asimilar” 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 | asimilar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [asimiˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “asimilar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around asimilar (IPA [asimiˈlaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,600 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for asimilar, with forms such as "acimilar", "aismilar", and "asiimlar". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "asimila", "asimilado", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is asimilar, spelled A-S-I-M-I-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer semejante, comparable.
- 2Hacer equivalente.
- 3Apropiarse, digerir.
- 4Comprender completamente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acimilar
- aismilar
- asiimlar
- asimialr
- asimilarr
- asimillar
- asimilra
- asimliar
- asimmilar
- asmiilar
- assimilar
- saimilar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asimilar - 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 "asimilar", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).