important
/ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
The verdict
“important” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #40,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,875
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Importante.
Corpus desk
Index ES-important · important · Spanish
important · rank #40,875 · 14 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,875
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH impediría
Nearest frequency peer: impediría (-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 “important”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- identificab…
identificables
59,130 corpus weight
- ike
ike
59,128 corpus weight
- impediría
impediría
59,127 corpus weight
- important
important
59,126 corpus weight
- imprimiendo
imprimiendo
59,124 corpus weight
- impulsiva
impulsiva
59,123 corpus weight
What this shows “important” 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 | important |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “important”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around important (IPA /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,875 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Importante.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for important, with forms such as "immportant", "imoprtant", and "imporatnt". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "importar", "importas", "importen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is important, spelled I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Importante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immportant
- imoprtant
- imporatnt
- imporrtant
- importannt
- importantt
- importatn
- importnat
- importtant
- impotrant
- impportant
- improtant
- ipmortant
- miportant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of important - 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
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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).