gangrena
[gãŋˈgɾena]
The verdict
“gangrena” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #35,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,526
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 17,549
- “G” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Muerte de un tejido producida por la falta de circulación del flujo sanguíneo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gangrena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [gãŋˈgɾena] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gangrena” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around gangrena (IPA [gãŋˈgɾena]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,526 among 17,549 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for gangrena, with forms such as "agngrena", "gagnrena", and "gangerna". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is gangrena, spelled G-A-N-G-R-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Muerte de un tejido producida por la falta de circulación del flujo sanguíneo.
- 2Enfermedad que afecta a los árboles y produce la destrucción de la madera.
- 3Que es perjudicial para la sociedad.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agngrena
- gagnrena
- gangerna
- ganggrena
- gangrean
- gangrenna
- gangrnea
- gangrrena
- ganngrena
- ganrgena
- ggangrena
- gnagrena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gangrena - 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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Using “gangrena”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is G-A-N-G-R-E-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [gãŋˈgɾena] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.