enclave
[ẽŋˈklaβ̞e]
The verdict
“enclave” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,669
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Territorio incluido en otro de mayor extensión con características diferentes: políticas, administrativas, geográficas, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-enclave · enclave · Spanish
enclave · rank #20,669 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,669
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH encargue
Nearest frequency peer: encargue (-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 “enclave”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- education
education
79,335 corpus weight
- efectúa
efectúa
79,334 corpus weight
- encargue
encargue
79,333 corpus weight
- enclave
enclave
79,332 corpus weight
- entraban
entraban
79,330 corpus weight
- entregadas
entregadas
79,329 corpus weight
What this shows “enclave” 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 | enclave |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽŋˈklaβ̞e] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “enclave”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around enclave (IPA [ẽŋˈklaβ̞e]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,669 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for enclave, with forms such as "ecnlave", "encalve", and "encclave". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "enlace", "esclavo", "esclava", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is enclave, spelled E-N-C-L-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Territorio incluido en otro de mayor extensión con características diferentes: políticas, administrativas, geográficas, etc.
- 2Grupo humano inserto en otro de características distintas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enclave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Solo subsistían sus ciudades, descontroladas, peligrosas, en vías de desfallecimiento, y esos enclaves fortificados donde las corpos extraen los materiales y fabrican lo suyo, repletos de kwasis trabajadores y kwasis guardiantes, tan poquitas personas.
El enclave kurdo en Turquía.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecnlave
- encalve
- encclave
- enclabe
- enclaev
- enclavve
- encllave
- enclvae
- enlcave
- ennclave
- neclave
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enclave - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).