etimología
[et̪imoloˈxia]
The verdict
“etimología” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,669
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rama de la lingüística que estudia el origen de las palabras.
Corpus desk
Index ES-etimologia · etimología · Spanish
etimología · rank #21,669 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,669
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH eternas
Nearest frequency peer: eternas (-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 “etimología”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- estudiaron
estudiaron
78,334 corpus weight
- eternas
eternas
78,333 corpus weight
- etimología
etimología
78,332 corpus weight
- evolucionan…
evolucionando
78,331 corpus weight
- exhiben
exhiben
78,330 corpus weight
- exhibiciones
exhibiciones
78,329 corpus weight
What this shows “etimología” 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 | etimología |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [et̪imoloˈxia] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “etimología”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around etimología (IPA [et̪imoloˈxia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,669 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for etimología, with forms such as "eitmología", "etimloogía", and "etimmología". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "etiología", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is etimología, spelled E-T-I-M-O-L-O-G-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Rama de la lingüística que estudia el origen de las palabras.
- 2Origen de alguna palabra, sus modificaciones a través del uso, y otros datos relativos a su historia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how etimología appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La clase de etimología empieza a las tres
Todas las palabras tienen una etimología
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eitmología
- etimloogía
- etimmología
- etimolgoía
- etimollogía
- etimologaí
- etimologgía
- etimoloíga
- etimoolgía
- etiomlogía
- etmiología
- ettimología
- teimología
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of etimología - 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 "etimología", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).