espinal
[espiˈnal]
The verdict
“espinal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,353. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,353
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a la espina dorsal o columna vertebral.
Corpus desk
Index ES-espinal · espinal · Spanish
espinal · rank #20,353 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,353
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH esforzarse
Nearest frequency peer: esforzarse (-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 “espinal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- erótica
erótica
79,651 corpus weight
- esforzarse
esforzarse
79,649 corpus weight
- espinal
espinal
79,648 corpus weight
- Estonia
Estonia
79,645 corpus weight
- estrato
estrato
79,644 corpus weight
- estéril
estéril
79,643 corpus weight
What this shows “espinal” 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 | espinal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [espiˈnal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “espinal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around espinal (IPA [espiˈnal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #20,353 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que pertenece o concierne a la espina dorsal o columna vertebral.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for espinal, with forms such as "epsinal", "esipnal", and "espianl". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "espino", "espinas", "espiral", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is espinal, spelled E-S-P-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a la espina dorsal o columna vertebral.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsinal
- esipnal
- espianl
- espinall
- espinla
- espinnal
- espnial
- esppinal
- esspinal
- sepinal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of espinal - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "espinal", 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).