nostalgia
[nosˈt̪alxja]
The verdict
“nostalgia” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,889. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,889
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sentimiento que se produce al echar de menos los buenos momentos del pasado. Se puede estar nostálgico o tener nostalgia de algo o de alguien.
Corpus desk
Index ES-nostalgia · nostalgia · Spanish
nostalgia · rank #7,889 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,889
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH niñez
Nearest frequency peer: niñez (-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 “nostalgia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- naval
naval
92,115 corpus weight
- niñez
niñez
92,113 corpus weight
- nostalgia
nostalgia
92,112 corpus weight
- notificación
notificación
92,111 corpus weight
- ondas
ondas
92,110 corpus weight
- oscuros
oscuros
92,109 corpus weight
What this shows “nostalgia” 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 | nostalgia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [nosˈt̪alxja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “nostalgia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around nostalgia (IPA [nosˈt̪alxja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,889 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sentimiento que se produce al echar de menos los buenos momentos del pasado. Se puede estar nostálgico o tener nostalgia de algo o de alguien.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for nostalgia, with forms such as "nnostalgia", "nosatlgia", and "nosstalgia". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "nostálgico", "nostálgica", 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 nostalgia, spelled N-O-S-T-A-L-G-I-A.
Definition
- 1Sentimiento que se produce al echar de menos los buenos momentos del pasado. Se puede estar nostálgico o tener nostalgia de algo o de alguien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nostalgia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ahora que estoy lejos pensar en mi patria chica me da nostalgia, me produce añoranza.
Siento una cierta nostalgia de aquel día que anduvimos por la playa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nnostalgia
- nosatlgia
- nosstalgia
- nostaglia
- nostalgai
- nostalggia
- nostaliga
- nostallgia
- nostlagia
- nosttalgia
- notsalgia
- nsotalgia
- onstalgia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nostalgia - 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 "nostalgia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).