origami
The verdict
“origami” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #46,100 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #46,100
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Arte de origen japonés que consiste en el plegado de papel, para obtener figuras de formas variadas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | origami |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oɾiˈɣ̞ami] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “origami” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for origami is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oɾiˈɣ̞ami]. Corpus data places it at rank #46,100 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Arte de origen japonés que consiste en el plegado de papel, para obtener figuras de formas variadas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for origami, with forms such as "oirgami", "orgiami", and "oriagmi". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is origami, spelled O-R-I-G-A-M-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arte de origen japonés que consiste en el plegado de papel, para obtener figuras de formas variadas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oirgami,orgiami,oriagmi,origaim,origammi,origgami,origmai,orrigami,roigami
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of origami — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "origami"
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 “origami”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-R-I-G-A-M-I — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [oɾiˈɣ̞ami] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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