obligatoria
[oβ̞liɣ̞aˈt̪oɾja]
The verdict
“obligatoria” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,605. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,605
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino de obligatorio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-obligatoria · obligatoria · Spanish
obligatoria · rank #7,605 · 16 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,605
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH obligada
Nearest frequency peer: obligada (-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 “obligatoria”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- noreste
noreste
92,399 corpus weight
- noventa
noventa
92,398 corpus weight
- obligada
obligada
92,397 corpus weight
- obligatoria
obligatoria
92,396 corpus weight
- observando
observando
92,395 corpus weight
- pague
pague
92,393 corpus weight
What this shows “obligatoria” 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 | obligatoria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [oβ̞liɣ̞aˈt̪oɾja] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #7,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “obligatoria”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around obligatoria (IPA [oβ̞liɣ̞aˈt̪oɾja]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,605 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del femenino de obligatorio.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for obligatoria, with forms such as "boligatoria", "obbligatoria", and "obilgatoria". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "obligatorio", "obligatorias", "obligatorios", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is obligatoria, spelled O-B-L-I-G-A-T-O-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino de obligatorio.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- boligatoria
- obbligatoria
- obilgatoria
- oblgiatoria
- obliagtoria
- obligaotria
- obligatoira
- obligatorai
- obligatorria
- obligatroia
- obligattoria
- obliggatoria
- obligtaoria
- oblligatoria
- olbigatoria
- ovligatoria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of obligatoria - 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 "obligatoria", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).