confiable
[kõɱˈfjaβ̞le]
The verdict
“confiable” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #8,356 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #8,356
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que es digno de confianza.
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 | confiable |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [kõɱˈfjaβ̞le] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “confiable” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for confiable is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [kõɱˈfjaβ̞le]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,356 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que es digno de confianza.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for confiable, with forms such as "cconfiable", "cnofiable", and "cofniable". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "contable", "confiables", "confiaba", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 confiable, spelled C-O-N-F-I-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que es digno de confianza.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconfiable,cnofiable,cofniable,confaible,conffiable,confiabble,confiabel,confiablle,confialbe,confiavle,confibale,conifable,connfiable,ocnfiable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of confiable - 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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Using “confiable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-O-N-F-I-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [kõɱˈfjaβ̞le] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “contable” - see the side-by-side comparison. confiable vs contable
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.