embargo
[ẽmˈbaɾɣ̞o]
The verdict
“embargo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #264. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #264
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ocupación, aprehensión o retención de los bienes de una persona hecha con mandamiento de juez competente por razón de deuda o delito.
Corpus desk
Index ES-embargo · embargo · Spanish
embargo · rank #264 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #264
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH dar
Nearest frequency peer: dar (-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 “embargo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ante
ante
99,740 corpus weight
- d
d
99,739 corpus weight
- dar
dar
99,738 corpus weight
- embargo
embargo
99,737 corpus weight
- favor
favor
99,736 corpus weight
- gusta
gusta
99,735 corpus weight
What this shows “embargo” 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 | embargo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽmˈbaɾɣ̞o] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “embargo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around embargo (IPA [ẽmˈbaɾɣ̞o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #264 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for embargo, with forms such as "ebmargo", "emabrgo", and "embagro". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "encargo", "embargos", "embarca", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is embargo, spelled E-M-B-A-R-G-O.
Definition
- 1Ocupación, aprehensión o retención de los bienes de una persona hecha con mandamiento de juez competente por razón de deuda o delito.
- 2Indigestión, empacho en el estómago.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how embargo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lo que se había iniciado como una disputa por el aumento de los impuestos a la extracción del salitre terminaba en un embargo, seguido de un frustrado remate y la posterior salida de las autoridades del puerto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ebmargo
- emabrgo
- embagro
- embarggo
- embarog
- embarrgo
- embbargo
- embrago
- emmbargo
- emvargo
- mebargo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of embargo - 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 "embargo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).