daña
[ˈd̪aɲa]
The verdict
“daña” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,808) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,808
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de dañar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dana · daña · Spanish
daña · rank #16,808 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,808
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH curado
Nearest frequency peer: curado (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “daña”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- cruzadas
cruzadas
83,197 corpus weight
- Cuauhtémoc
Cuauhtémoc
83,196 corpus weight
- cuidadoso
cuidadoso
83,195 corpus weight
- curado
curado
83,194 corpus weight
- daña
daña
83,193 corpus weight
- decepcionan…
decepcionante
83,192 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “daña” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | daña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈd̪aɲa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “daña”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for daña is neighbouring look-alikes ("día", "dar", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈd̪aɲa]. Frequency #16,808 among 4,885 “D” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for daña, with forms such as "adña", "daañ", and "ddaña". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "día", "dar", "don", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is daña, spelled D-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de dañar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de dañar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adña
- daañ
- ddaña
- dñaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of daña - 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 "daña", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).