ermitaño
[eɾmiˈt̪aɲo]
The verdict
“ermitaño” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #30,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,065
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 101,141
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Religioso de vida solitaria, dedicado a la oración y el sacrificio.
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 | ermitaño |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [eɾmiˈt̪aɲo] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ermitaño” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around ermitaño (IPA [eɾmiˈt̪aɲo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,065 among 101,141 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for ermitaño, with forms such as "emritaño", "erimtaño", and "ermiatño". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ermita", "emitan", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 ermitaño, spelled E-R-M-I-T-A-Ñ-O.
Definition
- 1Religioso de vida solitaria, dedicado a la oración y el sacrificio.
- 2Religioso cuidador de una ermita en la que habita.
- 3Persona solitaria que rehúye la compañía de los demás.
- 4Crustáceo decápodo que vive en los caparazones vacíos de caracoles.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emritaño
- erimtaño
- ermiatño
- ermitaoñ
- ermittaño
- ermitñao
- ermmitaño
- ermtiaño
- errmitaño
- remitaño
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ermitaño - 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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Using “ermitaño”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is E-R-M-I-T-A-Ñ-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [eɾmiˈt̪aɲo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ermita” - see the side-by-side comparison. ermitaño vs ermita
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.