banal
[baˈnal]
The verdict
“banal” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no tiene sustancia, ni especial significado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-banal · banal · Spanish
banal · rank #30,778 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,778
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Balaguer
Nearest frequency peer: Balaguer (-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 “banal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- bal
bal
69,225 corpus weight
- Balaguer
Balaguer
69,224 corpus weight
- banal
banal
69,223 corpus weight
- barre
barre
69,222 corpus weight
- Baviera
Baviera
69,221 corpus weight
- beato
beato
69,220 corpus weight
What this shows “banal” 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 | banal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [baˈnal] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #30,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “banal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around banal (IPA [baˈnal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,778 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for banal, with forms such as "abnal", "baanl", and "banall". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "baño", "basa", "bang", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is banal, spelled B-A-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Que no tiene sustancia, ni especial significado.
- 2Dicho de algún oficio o tarea: Que lo puede hacer cualquier persona aun sin estar capacitado para ello.
- 3Dicho de algún tema: Que es muy sabido y manoseado por todos; que en esencia constituye una perogrullada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how banal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Escribió últimamente Malraux: "Uno de mis personajes oye en un fonógrafo emitir su voz registrada y no la reconoce. La experiencia, hoy banal, no ha perdido su fuerza de símbolo...Yo había escrito que todo hombre oye su voz con la garganta y la de los demás con los oídos, salvo en la fraternidad o en el amor. El libro se llama La condición humana."
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abnal
- baanl
- banall
- banla
- bannal
- bbanal
- bnaal
- vanal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of banal - 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 "banal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).