biografía
[bjoɣ̞ɾaˈfia]
The verdict
“biografía” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,516. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,516
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trayectoria, especialmente narrada en forma de historia, de la vida de una persona o, por extensión, de una entidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-biografia · biografía · Spanish
biografía · rank #7,516 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,516
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH Bruselas
Nearest frequency peer: Bruselas (+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 “biografía”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- asiático
asiático
92,488 corpus weight
- Auge
Auge
92,487 corpus weight
- biografía
biografía
92,485 corpus weight
- Bruselas
Bruselas
92,484 corpus weight
- Carl
Carl
92,483 corpus weight
- catorce
catorce
92,482 corpus weight
What this shows “biografía” 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 | biografía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bjoɣ̞ɾaˈfia] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “biografía”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around biografía (IPA [bjoɣ̞ɾaˈfia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,516 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for biografía, with forms such as "bbiografía", "bigorafía", and "biogarfía". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "biógrafo", "biógrafos", "biografías", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is biografía, spelled B-I-O-G-R-A-F-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Trayectoria, especialmente narrada en forma de historia, de la vida de una persona o, por extensión, de una entidad.
- 2Género literario dentro del cual se clasifica la narración de biografías₁.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how biografía appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Me ocuparé en la biografía del muerto de la posada del Túnel».
«El año 1925 fue clave, trágicamente clave para la biografía de don Ignacio. Su madre murió en Bilbao en el mes de enero».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbiografía
- bigorafía
- biogarfía
- bioggrafía
- biografaí
- biograffía
- biograífa
- biogrfaía
- biogrrafía
- biorgafía
- boigrafía
- ibografía
- viografía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of biografía - 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 "biografía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).