impotencia
[ĩmpoˈt̪ẽnsja]
The verdict
“impotencia” has 15 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,474
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Falta de poder para hacer una cosa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-impotencia · impotencia · Spanish
impotencia · rank #9,474 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #9,474
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH imposición
Nearest frequency peer: imposición (-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 “impotencia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- honorable
honorable
90,530 corpus weight
- huerta
huerta
90,529 corpus weight
- imposición
imposición
90,528 corpus weight
- impotencia
impotencia
90,527 corpus weight
- incluía
incluía
90,526 corpus weight
- integran
integran
90,525 corpus weight
What this shows “impotencia” 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 | impotencia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ĩmpoˈt̪ẽnsja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #9,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “impotencia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around impotencia (IPA [ĩmpoˈt̪ẽnsja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,474 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for impotencia, with forms such as "immpotencia", "imoptencia", and "impoetncia". 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, "importancia", 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, 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 impotencia, spelled I-M-P-O-T-E-N-C-I-A.
Definition
- 1Falta de poder para hacer una cosa.
- 2Incapacidad para engendrar o concebir.
- 3Disfunción eréctil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how impotencia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Ramón comenta la magnitud de la tragedia con una expresión a caballo entre la impotencia y la rabia: “Cuando nosotros plantamos pinos, se trata de árboles enanos: miden pocos centímetros, y al cabo de seis años alcanzan una altura de sólo metro y medio”».
«Además, la alteración del funcionamiento de estas arterias es causa de disfunción eréctil en el varón, por lo que el estudio podría ser utilizado para el desarrollo de diferentes fármacos para el tratamiento de la impotencia y también para la prevención de problemas cardiovasculares».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- immpotencia
- imoptencia
- impoetncia
- impotecnia
- impotencai
- impotenccia
- impotenica
- impotenncia
- impotensia
- impotnecia
- impottencia
- imppotencia
- imptoencia
- ipmotencia
- mipotencia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of impotencia - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "impotencia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).