empresario
[ẽmpɾeˈsaɾjo]
The verdict
“empresario” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Persona que emprende algo.
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 | empresario |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽmpɾeˈsaɾjo] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “empresario” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around empresario (IPA [ẽmpɾeˈsaɾjo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,778 among 101,141 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for empresario, with forms such as "emmpresario", "empersario", and "emppresario". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "empresarios", "empresarial", "empresariado", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 empresario, spelled E-M-P-R-E-S-A-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Persona que emprende algo.
- 2Persona que es el propietario o administra una empresa, industria o negocio.
- 3Persona que tiene o contrata empleados.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmpresario
- empersario
- emppresario
- empreasrio
- empresairo
- empresaroi
- empresarrio
- empresraio
- empressario
- emprresario
- emprseario
- emrpesario
- epmresario
- mepresario
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of empresario - 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 “empresario”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-M-P-R-E-S-A-R-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ẽmpɾeˈsaɾjo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “empresarios” - see the side-by-side comparison. empresario vs empresarios
- 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.