empinada
[ẽmpiˈnað̞a]
The verdict
“empinada” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #45,288. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,288
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del femenino de empinado, participio de empinar.
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 | empinada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Participle |
| IPA | [ẽmpiˈnað̞a] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,288 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “empinada” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around empinada (IPA [ẽmpiˈnað̞a]), aparticiple. Corpus frequency is #45,288 among 101,141 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del femenino de empinado, participio de empinar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for empinada, with forms such as "emipnada", "emmpinada", and "empianda". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "empleada", "espinaca", "empujada", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 empinada, spelled E-M-P-I-N-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de empinado, participio de empinar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emipnada
- emmpinada
- empianda
- empinaad
- empinadda
- empindaa
- empinnada
- empniada
- emppinada
- epminada
- mepinada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empinada - 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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Using “empinada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-M-P-I-N-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽmpiˈnað̞a] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “empleada” - see the side-by-side comparison. empinada vs empleada
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.