empeorar
[ẽmpeoˈɾaɾ]
The verdict
“empeorar” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #15,602. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,602
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer que algo que ya era malo se vuelva aún peor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-empeorar · empeorar · Spanish
empeorar · rank #15,602 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,602
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH embarcación
Nearest frequency peer: embarcación (-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 “empeorar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- echaba
echaba
84,402 corpus weight
- embarcación
embarcación
84,400 corpus weight
- empeorar
empeorar
84,399 corpus weight
- encajar
encajar
84,398 corpus weight
- encantaba
encantaba
84,397 corpus weight
- enmiendas
enmiendas
84,396 corpus weight
What this shows “empeorar” 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 | empeorar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽmpeoˈɾaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “empeorar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around empeorar (IPA [ẽmpeoˈɾaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,602 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hacer que algo que ya era malo se vuelva aún peor.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for empeorar, with forms such as "emeporar", "emmpeorar", and "empeoarr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "esperar", "empezar", "explorar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is empeorar, spelled E-M-P-E-O-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer que algo que ya era malo se vuelva aún peor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how empeorar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La situación del obrero moderno es muy distinta, pues lejos de mejorar conforme progresa la industria, decae y empeora por debajo del nivel de su propia clase
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emeporar
- emmpeorar
- empeoarr
- empeorarr
- empeorra
- empeorrar
- emperoar
- empoerar
- emppeorar
- epmeorar
- mepeorar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empeorar - 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 "empeorar", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).