informal
[ĩɱfoɾˈmal]
The verdict
“informal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,533
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no sigue o tiene las formas, reglas, normas o convenciones establecidas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-informal · informal · Spanish
informal · rank #8,533 · 12 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,533
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH indignación
Nearest frequency peer: indignación (-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 “informal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- I'm
I'm
91,471 corpus weight
- indignación
indignación
91,469 corpus weight
- informal
informal
91,468 corpus weight
- iniciaron
iniciaron
91,467 corpus weight
- inminente
inminente
91,466 corpus weight
- intermedio
intermedio
91,465 corpus weight
What this shows “informal” 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 | informal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ĩɱfoɾˈmal] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “informal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around informal (IPA [ĩɱfoɾˈmal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,533 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for informal, with forms such as "ifnormal", "infformal", and "infomral". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "informe", "inmoral", "informo", and more, 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 informal, spelled I-N-F-O-R-M-A-L.
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.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ifnormal
- infformal
- infomral
- inforaml
- informall
- informla
- informmal
- inforrmal
- infromal
- innformal
- inofrmal
- niformal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of informal - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "informal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).