niñera
[niˈɲeɾa]
The verdict
“niñera” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #18,914. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,914
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,828
- “N” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mujer dedicada a cuidar niños.
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 | niñera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [niˈɲeɾa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “niñera” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around niñera (IPA [niˈɲeɾa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,914 among 7,828 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Mujer dedicada a cuidar niños.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for niñera, with forms such as "inñera", "nieñra", and "niñear". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "niñez", "ninja", "nuera", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is niñera, spelled N-I-Ñ-E-R-A.
Definition
- 1Mujer dedicada a cuidar niños.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inñera
- nieñra
- niñear
- niñerra
- niñrea
- nniñera
- nñiera
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of niñera - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “niñera”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is N-I-Ñ-E-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [niˈɲeɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “niñez” - see the side-by-side comparison. niñera vs niñez
- 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.