informal
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,533
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
informal is anSpanishadj. It means: Que no sigue o tiene las formas, reglas, normas o convenciones establecidas. Pronounced [ĩɱfoɾˈmal]. It ranks #8,533 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with informe and inmoral.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | informal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ĩɱfoɾˈmal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for informal is 8 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩɱfoɾˈmal]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,533 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for informal, with forms such as "ifnormal", "infformal", and "infomral". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "informe", "inmoral", "informo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is informal, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que no sigue o tiene las formas, reglas, normas o convenciones establecidas.
- 2Que no requiere formalidad, gravedad o solemnidad.
- 3Que vende artículos a pequeña escala por las calles, plazas, etc.
- 4Se dice de las actividades económicas, como negocios, empleos, etc., que no se ubican fácilmente dentro de los parámetros o clasificaciones convencionales y normalmente contempladas en la legislación.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ifnormal,infformal,infomral,inforaml,informall,informla,informmal,inforrmal,infromal,innformal,inofrmal,niformal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for informal
Misspelling Variants of "informal"
Frequency rank: #8,533 in Spanish
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