desafortunado
[d̪esafoɾt̪uˈnað̞o]
The verdict
“desafortunado” has 19 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,788. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,788
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no tiene fortuna o buena suerte; que trae o atrae adversidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desafortunado · desafortunado · Spanish
desafortunado · rank #18,788 · 19 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,788
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH derribado
Nearest frequency peer: derribado (-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 “desafortunado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- derivar
derivar
81,216 corpus weight
- derogación
derogación
81,215 corpus weight
- derribado
derribado
81,214 corpus weight
- desafortuna…
desafortunado
81,213 corpus weight
- descritas
descritas
81,212 corpus weight
- desequilibr…
desequilibrio
81,211 corpus weight
What this shows “desafortunado” 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 | desafortunado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [d̪esafoɾt̪uˈnað̞o] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #18,788 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “desafortunado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around desafortunado (IPA [d̪esafoɾt̪uˈnað̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #18,788 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for desafortunado, with forms such as "ddesafortunado", "deasfortunado", and "desaffortunado". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "desafortunados", "desafortunada", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 desafortunado, spelled D-E-S-A-F-O-R-T-U-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Que no tiene fortuna o buena suerte; que trae o atrae adversidad.
- 2Que ocurre o se hace de tal modo o en tal momento que genera resultados desfavorables, negativos o no deseados.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how desafortunado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lo desafortunado y lo lamentable es que la Ministra no asuma su responsabilidad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddesafortunado
- deasfortunado
- desaffortunado
- desaforrtunado
- desafortnuado
- desaforttunado
- desafortuando
- desafortunaddo
- desafortunaod
- desafortundao
- desafortunnado
- desaforutnado
- desafotrunado
- desafrotunado
- desaofrtunado
- desfaortunado
- dessafortunado
- dseafortunado
- edsafortunado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of desafortunado - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).