iguana
[iˈɣ̞wana]
The verdict
“iguana” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,685
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Iguana spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de lagartos nativos de las regiones tropicales de América y el Caribe, caracterizadas por una cresta dorsal, la presencia de grandes escamas tuberculares en...
Corpus desk
Index ES-iguana · iguana · Spanish
iguana · rank #29,685 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,685
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH identificacio…
Nearest frequency peer: identificaciones (-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 “iguana”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- hondureña
hondureña
70,319 corpus weight
- identificac…
identificaciones
70,317 corpus weight
- iguana
iguana
70,316 corpus weight
- impedimentos
impedimentos
70,315 corpus weight
- impera
impera
70,314 corpus weight
- imperfecta
imperfecta
70,313 corpus weight
What this shows “iguana” 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 | iguana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [iˈɣ̞wana] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “iguana”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around iguana (IPA [iˈɣ̞wana]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,685 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "(Iguana spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de lagartos nativos de las regiones tropicales de América y el Caribe, caracterizadas por una cresta dorsal, la presencia de grandes escamas tuberculares en...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for iguana, with forms such as "giuana", "igauna", and "igguana". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Ivana", "iguanas", "igual", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is iguana, spelled I-G-U-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1(Iguana spp.) Cualquiera de dos especies de lagartos nativos de las regiones tropicales de América y el Caribe, caracterizadas por una cresta dorsal, la presencia de grandes escamas tuberculares en el cuello y una longitud que alcanza los dos metros.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how iguana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hecha nuestra montería, seguimos el camino adelante, y a poco rato hallé algunos de los corredores que iban delante parados, y tenían cuatro indios cazadores que había tomado, y traían muerto un león y ciertas iguanas, que son unos grandes lagartos que hay en las islas.
La iguana también la comen en los campos. Es un animal limpio que se alimenta de limpias hierbas. En la rama donde está la agitan hasta que cae atontada; entonces la cazan y la llevan a la cocinera. Yo he comido iguana y confieso que se asemeja a la carne de gallina y que no siendo de muy fino paladar pueden confundirse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- giuana
- igauna
- igguana
- iguaan
- iguanna
- igunaa
- iugana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of iguana - 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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