empeñado
[ẽmpeˈɲað̞o]
The verdict
“empeñado” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,742. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,742
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dicho de disputas o reyertas: acalorado, reñido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empenado · empeñado · Spanish
empeñado · rank #28,742 · 10 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,742
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH elitista
Nearest frequency peer: elitista (-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 “empeñado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- educacional…
educacionales
71,262 corpus weight
- elitista
elitista
71,260 corpus weight
- empeñado
empeñado
71,259 corpus weight
- emplearse
emplearse
71,258 corpus weight
- Engels
Engels
71,257 corpus weight
- engranajes
engranajes
71,256 corpus weight
What this shows “empeñado” 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 | empeñado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ẽmpeˈɲað̞o] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,742 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “empeñado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around empeñado (IPA [ẽmpeˈɲað̞o]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,742 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dicho de disputas o reyertas: acalorado, reñido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for empeñado, with forms such as "emepñado", "emmpeñado", and "empeañdo". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "empeñan", "empleado", "empezado", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 empeñado, spelled E-M-P-E-Ñ-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Dicho de disputas o reyertas: acalorado, reñido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emepñado
- emmpeñado
- empeañdo
- empeñaddo
- empeñaod
- empeñdao
- emppeñado
- empñeado
- epmeñado
- mepeñado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empeñado - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "empeñado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).