festejar
[fest̪eˈxaɾ]
The verdict
“festejar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #13,248. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,248
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer una fiesta o demostrar alegría con motivo de algún hecho o acontecimiento.
Corpus desk
Index ES-festejar · festejar · Spanish
festejar · rank #13,248 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH Facu
Nearest frequency peer: Facu (-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 “festejar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- exigió
exigió
86,756 corpus weight
- facial
facial
86,755 corpus weight
- Facu
Facu
86,754 corpus weight
- festejar
festejar
86,753 corpus weight
- fiable
fiable
86,752 corpus weight
- fire
fire
86,751 corpus weight
What this shows “festejar” 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 | festejar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fest̪eˈxaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “festejar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around festejar (IPA [fest̪eˈxaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,248 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hacer una fiesta o demostrar alegría con motivo de algún hecho o acontecimiento.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for festejar, with forms such as "efstejar", "fesetjar", and "fesstejar". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "festejo", "festejos", "festeja", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is festejar, spelled F-E-S-T-E-J-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer una fiesta o demostrar alegría con motivo de algún hecho o acontecimiento.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how festejar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El señor se rió como festejando una ocurrencia muy chistosa.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstejar
- fesetjar
- fesstejar
- festeajr
- festejarr
- festejjar
- festejra
- festjear
- festtejar
- fetsejar
- ffestejar
- fsetejar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festejar - 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 "festejar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).