federal
[feð̞eˈɾal]
The verdict
“federal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,056. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,056
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio o relacionado con el federalismo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-federal · federal · Spanish
federal · rank #1,056 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,056
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH edificio
Nearest frequency peer: edificio (-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 “federal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Cuba
Cuba
98,948 corpus weight
- económico
económico
98,947 corpus weight
- edificio
edificio
98,946 corpus weight
- federal
federal
98,945 corpus weight
- lengua
lengua
98,944 corpus weight
- mesa
mesa
98,943 corpus weight
What this shows “federal” 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 | federal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [feð̞eˈɾal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,056 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “federal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around federal (IPA [feð̞eˈɾal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,056 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for federal, with forms such as "efderal", "fdeeral", and "fedderal". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "fedora", "funeral", "femoral", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is federal, spelled F-E-D-E-R-A-L.
Definition
- 1Propio o relacionado con el federalismo.
- 2Propio o relacionado con la federación.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efderal
- fdeeral
- fedderal
- fedearl
- federall
- federla
- federral
- fedreal
- feedral
- ffederal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of federal - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "federal", 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).