contratar
[kõn̪t̪ɾaˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“contratar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,189. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,189
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Realizar un acuerdo, pacto o contrato.
Corpus desk
Index ES-contratar · contratar · Spanish
contratar · rank #5,189 · 14 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,189
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH coraje
Nearest frequency peer: coraje (+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 “contratar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- comienzan
comienzan
94,815 corpus weight
- conservador
conservador
94,814 corpus weight
- contratar
contratar
94,812 corpus weight
- coraje
coraje
94,811 corpus weight
- corresponden
corresponden
94,810 corpus weight
- creas
creas
94,809 corpus weight
What this shows “contratar” 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 | contratar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “contratar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around contratar (IPA [kõn̪t̪ɾaˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,189 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for contratar, with forms such as "ccontratar", "cnotratar", and "conntratar". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "contrato", "controlar", "contratos", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 contratar, spelled C-O-N-T-R-A-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Realizar un acuerdo, pacto o contrato.
- 2Aceptar a alguien para que realice un trabajo o un servicio, normalmente mediante una contraprestación económica.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccontratar
- cnotratar
- conntratar
- conrtatar
- contartar
- contraatr
- contratarr
- contratra
- contrattar
- contrratar
- contrtaar
- conttratar
- cotnratar
- ocntratar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of contratar - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "contratar", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).