impermeable
[ĩmpeɾmeˈaβ̞le]
The verdict
“impermeable” has 17 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #28,031. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,031
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no puede absorber o ser atravesado por un líquido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-impermeable · impermeable · Spanish
impermeable · rank #28,031 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,031
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH ilógico
Nearest frequency peer: ilógico (-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 “impermeable”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ignorados
ignorados
71,973 corpus weight
- ilógico
ilógico
71,971 corpus weight
- impermeable
impermeable
71,970 corpus weight
- implementan…
implementando
71,969 corpus weight
- importada
importada
71,968 corpus weight
- impunemente
impunemente
71,967 corpus weight
What this shows “impermeable” 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 | impermeable |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ĩmpeɾmeˈaβ̞le] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #28,031 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “impermeable”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around impermeable (IPA [ĩmpeɾmeˈaβ̞le]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,031 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for impermeable, with forms such as "imeprmeable", "immpermeable", and "impemreable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "impermeables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is impermeable, spelled I-M-P-E-R-M-E-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Que no puede absorber o ser atravesado por un líquido.
- 2Por extensión, que no puede ser afectado por una situación o emoción.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impermeable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Las aguas que circulan por el interior se hallan, como veremos más adelante, sujetas á los mismos principios que las externas, formando arroyos, rios y lagos, enteramente iguales á los de la superficie del globo. La permeabilidad permite la filtracion, pero el carácter impermeable de ciertas rocas impide que las aguas corran en sentido vertical, teniendo…
Pues bien, según parece, Mr. Robert ha conseguido hacer el corcho de todo punto impermeable. Á este fin, lo corta en pequeños pedazos, del tamaño de una cabeza de alfiler; somete después estos pedazos á la acción del negro de humo, en la proporción de un litro de éste por tres litros de corcho desmenuzado, y resulta una substancia de densidad constante, d…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imeprmeable
- immpermeable
- impemreable
- imperemable
- impermaeble
- impermeabble
- impermeabel
- impermeablle
- impermealbe
- impermeavle
- impermebale
- impermmeable
- imperrmeable
- imppermeable
- impremeable
- ipmermeable
- mipermeable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impermeable - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).