investigado
[ĩmbest̪iˈɣ̞að̞o]
The verdict
“investigado” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #11,256 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #11,256
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 11
- letters
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participio de investigar.
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 | investigado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ĩmbest̪iˈɣ̞að̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #11,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “investigado” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for investigado is 11 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmbest̪iˈɣ̞að̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #11,256 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participio de investigar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for investigado, with forms such as "inbestigado", "inevstigado", and "innvestigado". 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, "investigar", "investigan", "investigará", 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, 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 investigado, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Participio de investigar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inbestigado,inevstigado,innvestigado,invesitgado,invesstigado,investgiado,investiagdo,investigaddo,investigaod,investigdao,investiggado,investtigado,invetsigado,invsetigado,invvestigado,ivnestigado,nivestigado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of investigado - 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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Using “investigado”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩmbest̪iˈɣ̞að̞o] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “investigar” - see the side-by-side comparison. investigado vs investigar
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.