hienas
[ˈjenas]
The verdict
“hienas” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,132. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,132
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del plural de hiena.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hienas · hienas · Spanish
hienas · rank #37,132 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,132
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH heroicos
Nearest frequency peer: heroicos (-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 “hienas”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- hambrienta
hambrienta
62,874 corpus weight
- hari
hari
62,872 corpus weight
- heroicos
heroicos
62,870 corpus weight
- hienas
hienas
62,869 corpus weight
- hispanohabl…
hispanohablantes
62,865 corpus weight
- histérico
histérico
62,864 corpus weight
What this shows “hienas” 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 | hienas |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈjenas] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “hienas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hienas (IPA [ˈjenas]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,132 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de hiena.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hienas, with forms such as "heinas", "hhienas", and "hieans". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "hijas", "himnos", "huecas", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is hienas, spelled H-I-E-N-A-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de hiena.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- heinas
- hhienas
- hieans
- hienass
- hiennas
- hiensa
- hineas
- ihenas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hienas - 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 "hienas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).