envidia
[ẽmˈbið̞ja]
The verdict
“envidia” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #6,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,295
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infelicidad causada por el bienestar, éxito, posesiones etc. de otro.
Corpus desk
Index ES-envidia · envidia · Spanish
envidia · rank #6,295 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,295
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH enfrentarse
Nearest frequency peer: enfrentarse (-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 “envidia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- encantado
encantado
93,708 corpus weight
- enfrentarse
enfrentarse
93,707 corpus weight
- envidia
envidia
93,706 corpus weight
- esenciales
esenciales
93,705 corpus weight
- estatus
estatus
93,704 corpus weight
- Esteban
Esteban
93,703 corpus weight
What this shows “envidia” 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 | envidia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ẽmˈbið̞ja] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “envidia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around envidia (IPA [ẽmˈbið̞ja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,295 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for envidia, with forms such as "enbidia", "enivdia", and "ennvidia". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "envidio", "envidias", "envía", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 envidia, spelled E-N-V-I-D-I-A.
Definition
- 1Infelicidad causada por el bienestar, éxito, posesiones etc. de otro.
- 2Objeto que provoca envidia₁.
- 3El deseo de algo que no se tiene.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how envidia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y con esto queda en su punto la verdad que la fama pregona de la bondad de Marcela; la cual, fuera de ser cruel, y un poco arrogante y un mucho desdeñosa, la mesma envidia ni debe ni puede ponerle falta alguna.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enbidia
- enivdia
- ennvidia
- envdiia
- envidai
- enviddia
- enviida
- envvidia
- evnidia
- nevidia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of envidia - 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 "envidia", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).