investigador
[ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈð̞oɾ]
The verdict
“investigador” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #4,912 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #4,912
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12
- letters
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que investiga, que hace una investigación, indagación o estudio.
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 | investigador |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈð̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #4,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “investigador” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for investigador is 12 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈð̞oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,912 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que investiga, que hace una investigación, indagación o estudio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for investigador, with forms such as "inbestigador", "inevstigador", and "innvestigador". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "investigar", "investigando", "investigados", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is investigador, spelled I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Que investiga, que hace una investigación, indagación o estudio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: inbestigador,inevstigador,innvestigador,invesitgador,invesstigador,investgiador,investiagdor,investigaddor,investigadorr,investigadro,investigaodr,investigdaor,investiggador,investtigador,invetsigador,invsetigador,invvestigador,ivnestigador,nivestigador
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of investigador - 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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Using “investigador”
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-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ĩmbest̪iɣ̞aˈð̞oɾ] (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. investigador 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.