jovial
[xoˈβ̞jal]
The verdict
“jovial” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #47,218. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,218
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relacionado con Jove (el dios) o Júpiter (el planeta).
Corpus desk
Index ES-jovial · jovial · Spanish
jovial · rank #47,218 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,218
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH juguetona
Nearest frequency peer: juguetona (+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 “jovial”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- irrefutables
irrefutables
52,786 corpus weight
- jamaicano
jamaicano
52,785 corpus weight
- jovial
jovial
52,783 corpus weight
- juguetona
juguetona
52,782 corpus weight
- Kano
Kano
52,781 corpus weight
- Kawasaki
Kawasaki
52,780 corpus weight
What this shows “jovial” 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 | jovial |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [xoˈβ̞jal] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “jovial”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around jovial (IPA [xoˈβ̞jal]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,218 among 645 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for jovial, with forms such as "jjovial", "jobial", and "joival". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "jornal", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is jovial, spelled J-O-V-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relacionado con Jove (el dios) o Júpiter (el planeta).
- 2De condición alegre o agradable.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjovial
- jobial
- joival
- jovail
- joviall
- jovila
- jovvial
- jvoial
- ojvial
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of jovial - 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 "jovial", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).