dificultar
[d̪ifikul̪ˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“dificultar” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,036
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poner dificultades, sean estas físicas, mediante obstáculos, o abstractas, alegando opiniones contrarias a una intención.
Corpus desk
Index ES-dificultar · dificultar · Spanish
dificultar · rank #30,036 · 15 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,036
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH diferenciarse
Nearest frequency peer: diferenciarse (-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 “dificultar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- detestable
detestable
69,968 corpus weight
- devastada
devastada
69,967 corpus weight
- diferenciar…
diferenciarse
69,966 corpus weight
- dificultar
dificultar
69,965 corpus weight
- digitalizac…
digitalización
69,964 corpus weight
- dijese
dijese
69,963 corpus weight
What this shows “dificultar” 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 | dificultar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [d̪ifikul̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “dificultar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around dificultar (IPA [d̪ifikul̪ˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,036 among 4,885 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poner dificultades, sean estas físicas, mediante obstáculos, o abstractas, alegando opiniones contrarias a una intención.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for dificultar, with forms such as "ddificultar", "dfiicultar", and "difciultar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "dificulta", "dificultad", "dificultan", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is dificultar, spelled D-I-F-I-C-U-L-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Poner dificultades, sean estas físicas, mediante obstáculos, o abstractas, alegando opiniones contrarias a una intención.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddificultar
- dfiicultar
- difciultar
- difficultar
- dificcultar
- dificlutar
- dificulatr
- dificulltar
- dificultarr
- dificultra
- dificulttar
- dificutlar
- difiucltar
- diifcultar
- idficultar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dificultar - 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 "dificultar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).