ébano
[ˈeβ̞ano]
The verdict
“ébano” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #42,219. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,219
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 31
- “É” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Diospyros ebenum) árbol de hasta 25 m. de altura, perteneciente a la familia de las ebenáceas, originario de India y de Sri Lanka, caracterizado por un tronco de madera muy maciza, pesada, lisa, b...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ebano · ébano · Spanish
ébano · rank #42,219 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,219
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 31
- PHOTO-FINISH zur
Nearest frequency peer: zur (-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 “ébano”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- yay
yay
57,786 corpus weight
- zika
zika
57,784 corpus weight
- zur
zur
57,783 corpus weight
- ébano
ébano
57,782 corpus weight
- ña
ña
57,781 corpus weight
- abandonaba
abandonaba
57,779 corpus weight
What this shows “ébano” 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 | ébano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeβ̞ano] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #42,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ébano”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ébano (IPA [ˈeβ̞ano]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,219 among 31 “É” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ébano, with forms such as "béano", "éabno", and "ébanno". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "eran", "enano", "ebrio", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ébano, spelled É-B-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1(Diospyros ebenum) árbol de hasta 25 m. de altura, perteneciente a la familia de las ebenáceas, originario de India y de Sri Lanka, caracterizado por un tronco de madera muy maciza, pesada, lisa, blanquecina hacia la corteza y muy negra por el centro.
- 2Madera de dicho árbol.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- béano
- éabno
- ébanno
- ébaon
- ébbano
- ébnao
- évano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ébano - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).