espinaca
[espiˈnaka]
The verdict
“espinaca” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #41,899. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,899
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Spinacia oleracea) Planta hortense de hojas radicales con tallos rojizos, comestible, anual.
Corpus desk
Index ES-espinaca · espinaca · Spanish
espinaca · rank #41,899 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,899
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH eslavos
Nearest frequency peer: eslavos (-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 “espinaca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- erguido
erguido
58,106 corpus weight
- Errázuriz
Errázuriz
58,105 corpus weight
- escondiéndo…
escondiéndose
58,104 corpus weight
- eslavos
eslavos
58,103 corpus weight
- espinaca
espinaca
58,102 corpus weight
- etiquetada
etiquetada
58,100 corpus weight
What this shows “espinaca” 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 | espinaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [espiˈnaka] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “espinaca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around espinaca (IPA [espiˈnaka]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,899 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Spinacia oleracea) Planta hortense de hojas radicales con tallos rojizos, comestible, anual.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for espinaca, with forms such as "epsinaca", "esipnaca", and "espianca". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "espinas", "espinal", "espinar", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is espinaca, spelled E-S-P-I-N-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1(Spinacia oleracea) Planta hortense de hojas radicales con tallos rojizos, comestible, anual.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsinaca
- esipnaca
- espianca
- espinaac
- espinacca
- espincaa
- espinnaca
- espniaca
- esppinaca
- esspinaca
- sepinaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espinaca - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).