cardinal
[kaɾð̞iˈnal]
The verdict
“cardinal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #40,175. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,175
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primero en rango, importancia o jerarquía dentro de un conjunto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cardinal · cardinal · Spanish
cardinal · rank #40,175 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,175
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cargamos
Nearest frequency peer: cargamos (+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 “cardinal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- calzados
calzados
59,830 corpus weight
- carcinoma
carcinoma
59,828 corpus weight
- cardinal
cardinal
59,826 corpus weight
- cargamos
cargamos
59,825 corpus weight
- carina
carina
59,824 corpus weight
- Casanare
Casanare
59,823 corpus weight
What this shows “cardinal” 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 | cardinal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kaɾð̞iˈnal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “cardinal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around cardinal (IPA [kaɾð̞iˈnal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,175 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for cardinal, with forms such as "acrdinal", "cadrinal", and "carddinal". 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, "carnal", "carina", "cordial", and more, 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, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is cardinal, spelled C-A-R-D-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Primero en rango, importancia o jerarquía dentro de un conjunto.
- 2Propio de o relativo a cualquiera de las direcciones principales de la brújula, norte, sur, este y oeste.
- 3Dicho de un número, que expresa solo cantidad y no posición relativa en un conjunto.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrdinal
- cadrinal
- carddinal
- cardianl
- cardinall
- cardinla
- cardinnal
- cardnial
- caridnal
- carrdinal
- ccardinal
- cradinal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cardinal - 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 "cardinal", 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).