journal
[ʒuʁ.nal]
The verdict
“journal” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,134. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,134
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Periódico, diario.
Corpus desk
Index ES-journal · journal · Spanish
journal · rank #8,134 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,134
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH integrante
Nearest frequency peer: integrante (-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 “journal”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- inconsciente
inconsciente
91,870 corpus weight
- instancias
instancias
91,869 corpus weight
- integrante
integrante
91,868 corpus weight
- journal
journal
91,867 corpus weight
- lean
lean
91,866 corpus weight
- leyendas
leyendas
91,865 corpus weight
What this shows “journal” 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 | journal |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʒuʁ.nal] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “journal”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around journal (IPA [ʒuʁ.nal]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,134 among 645 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Periódico, diario.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for journal, with forms such as "jjournal", "jorunal", and "jounral". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "journey", "jornal", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is journal, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Periódico, diario.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjournal
- jorunal
- jounral
- jouranl
- journall
- journla
- journnal
- jourrnal
- juornal
- ojurnal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of journal - 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 "journal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).