obligar
[oβ̞liˈɣ̞aɾ]
The verdict
“obligar” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,002
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atar, ligar, precisar, mover eficazmente a alguna cosa, aunque sea repugnante al gusto y genio del que la ha de ejecutar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-obligar · obligar · Spanish
obligar · rank #9,002 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,002
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH nocturna
Nearest frequency peer: nocturna (-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 “obligar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Nigeria
Nigeria
91,001 corpus weight
- nocturna
nocturna
91,000 corpus weight
- obligar
obligar
90,999 corpus weight
- observado
observado
90,998 corpus weight
- observatorio
observatorio
90,997 corpus weight
- ocupando
ocupando
90,996 corpus weight
What this shows “obligar” 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 | obligar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oβ̞liˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “obligar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around obligar (IPA [oβ̞liˈɣ̞aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,002 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligar, with forms such as "boligar", "obbligar", and "obilgar". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "obviar", "obligo", "olivar", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is obligar, spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1Atar, ligar, precisar, mover eficazmente a alguna cosa, aunque sea repugnante al gusto y genio del que la ha de ejecutar.
- 2Adquirirse y atraerse la voluntad o benevolencia de otros con beneficios o agasajos, para tenerle propicio cuando le necesitare.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligar
- obbligar
- obilgar
- oblgiar
- obliagr
- obligarr
- obliggar
- obligra
- oblligar
- olbigar
- ovligar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligar - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "obligar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).