encantar
[ẽŋkãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
The verdict
“encantar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,236
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En los cuentos para niños y en algunos mitos, someter a una persona a poderes mágicos malignos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-encantar · encantar · Spanish
encantar · rank #18,236 · 12 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,236
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH encargará
Nearest frequency peer: encargará (+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 “encantar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- empezaste
empezaste
81,769 corpus weight
- empujando
empujando
81,768 corpus weight
- encabezados
encabezados
81,767 corpus weight
- encantar
encantar
81,765 corpus weight
- encargará
encargará
81,764 corpus weight
- encuestados
encuestados
81,762 corpus weight
What this shows “encantar” 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 | encantar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋkãn̪ˈt̪aɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “encantar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around encantar (IPA [ẽŋkãn̪ˈt̪aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,236 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for encantar, with forms such as "ecnantar", "enacntar", and "encanatr". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "encanto", "engañar", "encarar", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is encantar, spelled E-N-C-A-N-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1En los cuentos para niños y en algunos mitos, someter a una persona a poderes mágicos malignos.
- 2Captar la voluntad de las personas por atributos personales como la belleza, talento, simpatía y otros.
- 3Pasmar a uno, alelarlo.
- 4Entretener con buenas palabras.
- 5Gustar mucho una cosa.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnantar
- enacntar
- encanatr
- encanntar
- encantarr
- encantra
- encanttar
- encatnar
- enccantar
- encnatar
- enncantar
- necantar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encantar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "encantar", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).