encerrar
[ẽnseˈraɾ]
The verdict
“encerrar” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,678
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Introducir algo o a alguien en un lugar cerrado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-encerrar · encerrar · Spanish
encerrar · rank #22,678 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH encendidas
Nearest frequency peer: encendidas (-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 “encerrar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- emi
emi
77,326 corpus weight
- encajan
encajan
77,325 corpus weight
- encendidas
encendidas
77,324 corpus weight
- encerrar
encerrar
77,323 corpus weight
- encontraran
encontraran
77,322 corpus weight
- encubrimien…
encubrimiento
77,320 corpus weight
What this shows “encerrar” 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 | encerrar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽnseˈraɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “encerrar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around encerrar (IPA [ẽnseˈraɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,678 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Introducir algo o a alguien en un lugar cerrado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for encerrar, with forms such as "ecnerrar", "enccerrar", and "encerar". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "enterar", "encerró", "enterrar", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is encerrar, spelled E-N-C-E-R-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Introducir algo o a alguien en un lugar cerrado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnerrar
- enccerrar
- encerar
- encerarr
- encerrarr
- encerrra
- encrerar
- enecrrar
- enncerrar
- enserrar
- necerrar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of encerrar - 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 "encerrar", 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).