number
/ˈnʌm.bə/
The verdict
“number” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,938. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,938
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,151
- “N” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Número.
Corpus desk
Index ES-number · number · Spanish
number · rank #26,938 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,938
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,151
- PHOTO-FINISH nor
Nearest frequency peer: nor (-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 “number”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- narcóticos
narcóticos
73,066 corpus weight
- nor
nor
73,064 corpus weight
- number
number
73,063 corpus weight
- numérico
numérico
73,062 corpus weight
- obediente
obediente
73,061 corpus weight
- obligatorie…
obligatoriedad
73,060 corpus weight
What this shows “number” 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 | number |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈnʌm.bə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “number”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around number (IPA /ˈnʌm.bə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,938 among 1,151 “N” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for number, with forms such as "nmuber", "nnumber", and "nubmer". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "número", "Numbers", "nube", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is number, spelled N-U-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1Número.
- 2Gran número de algo, cantidad.
- 3Tema.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nmuber
- nnumber
- nubmer
- numbber
- numberr
- numbre
- numebr
- nummber
- numver
- unmber
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of number - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).