engañar
[ẽŋgaˈɲaɾ]
The verdict
“engañar” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #5,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,827
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Llevar deliberadamente a alguno a creer lo que no es cierto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-enganar · engañar · Spanish
engañar · rank #5,827 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,827
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH enfrentamiento
Nearest frequency peer: enfrentamiento (-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 “engañar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- duerme
duerme
94,177 corpus weight
- Emilio
Emilio
94,176 corpus weight
- enfrentamie…
enfrentamiento
94,175 corpus weight
- engañar
engañar
94,174 corpus weight
- enseguida
enseguida
94,173 corpus weight
- episodios
episodios
94,172 corpus weight
What this shows “engañar” 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 | engañar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ẽŋgaˈɲaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “engañar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around engañar (IPA [ẽŋgaˈɲaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,827 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for engañar, with forms such as "egnañar", "enagñar", and "engaañr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "engaño", "engañe", "enseñar", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is engañar, spelled E-N-G-A-Ñ-A-R.
Definition
- 1Llevar deliberadamente a alguno a creer lo que no es cierto.
- 2Dicho de un efecto sensorial, llevar a inferencias inexactas acerca de lo que le da origen; producir la ilusión de los sentidos.
- 3Faltar a la fidelidad conyugal, cometer adulterio.
- 4Desviar la atención para hacer una sensación más llevadera.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engañar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Levantó los ojos sin miedo alguno, riendo de estas palabras. El señor acostumbraba a engañarla con bromas inverosímiles. Bien decía su padre que los Febrer eran unos caballeros serios como jueces, pero de eterno buen humor. Iba a burlarse otra vez de ella, lo mismo que cuando le hablaba de la novia de barro guardada en su torre, que había estado esperándo…
[L]a cruz se sale del quadro como si fuera corpórea, tanto que llega a engañar la vista.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnañar
- enagñar
- engaañr
- engañarr
- engañra
- enggañar
- engñaar
- enngañar
- negañar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of engañar - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "engañar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).