asma
[ˈasma]
The verdict
“asma” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,015) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,015
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfermedad inflamatoria del aparato respiratorio que provoca dificultad en la respiración (disnea).
Corpus desk
Index ES-asma · asma · Spanish
asma · rank #15,015 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,015
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH atienden
Nearest frequency peer: atienden (+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 “asma”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- asaltos
asaltos
84,989 corpus weight
- asesinadas
asesinadas
84,988 corpus weight
- asma
asma
84,986 corpus weight
- atienden
atienden
84,985 corpus weight
- ayuno
ayuno
84,983 corpus weight
- añaden
añaden
84,982 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “asma” 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 | asma |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈasma] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “asma”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asma is neighbouring look-alikes ("aya", "ass", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈasma]. Frequency #15,015 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Enfermedad inflamatoria del aparato respiratorio que provoca dificultad en la respiración (disnea).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for asma, with forms such as "asam", "asmma", and "assma". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aya", "ass", "ATM", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is asma, spelled A-S-M-A.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad inflamatoria del aparato respiratorio que provoca dificultad en la respiración (disnea).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asam
- asmma
- assma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asma - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "asma", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).