migraña
[miˈɣ̞ɾaɲa]
The verdict
“migraña” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,442
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dolor de cabeza intenso, que no se calma con el ácido acetilsalicílico ni otros analgésicos habituales, toma un solo lado de la cabeza y suele acompañarse de náuseas.
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 | migraña |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [miˈɣ̞ɾaɲa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “migraña” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around migraña (IPA [miˈɣ̞ɾaɲa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,442 among 36,142 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Dolor de cabeza intenso, que no se calma con el ácido acetilsalicílico ni otros analgésicos habituales, toma un solo lado de la cabeza y suele acompañarse de náuseas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for migraña, with forms such as "imgraña", "mgiraña", and "migarña". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "miran", "mirada", "miraba", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is migraña, spelled M-I-G-R-A-Ñ-A.
Definition
- 1Dolor de cabeza intenso, que no se calma con el ácido acetilsalicílico ni otros analgésicos habituales, toma un solo lado de la cabeza y suele acompañarse de náuseas.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imgraña
- mgiraña
- migarña
- miggraña
- migraañ
- migrraña
- migrñaa
- mirgaña
- mmigraña
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of migraña - 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 “migraña”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-I-G-R-A-Ñ-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [miˈɣ̞ɾaɲa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “miran” - see the side-by-side comparison. migraña vs miran
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Same frequency band
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.