funcionar
[fũnsjoˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“funcionar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,412. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,412
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Realizar la o las funciones para lo que una labor o un mecanismo fue concebido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-funcionar · funcionar · Spanish
funcionar · rank #3,412 · 14 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,412
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fiscales
Nearest frequency peer: fiscales (-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 “funcionar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- expresa
expresa
96,592 corpus weight
- fallo
fallo
96,591 corpus weight
- fiscales
fiscales
96,590 corpus weight
- funcionar
funcionar
96,589 corpus weight
- fundador
fundador
96,588 corpus weight
- garantizar
garantizar
96,587 corpus weight
What this shows “funcionar” 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 | funcionar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [fũnsjoˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “funcionar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around funcionar (IPA [fũnsjoˈnaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,412 among 2,333 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for funcionar, with forms such as "ffuncionar", "fnucionar", and "fucnionar". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "funcione", "funciono", "fusionar", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is funcionar, spelled F-U-N-C-I-O-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Realizar la o las funciones para lo que una labor o un mecanismo fue concebido.
- 2Marchar bien, cumplir con éxito una función.
- 3Cumplir con lo que se espera de un asunto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffuncionar
- fnucionar
- fucnionar
- funccionar
- funcinoar
- funcioanr
- funcionarr
- funcionnar
- funcionra
- funcoinar
- funiconar
- funncionar
- funsionar
- ufncionar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of funcionar - 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 "funcionar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).