pain
[pɛ̃]
The verdict
“pain” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,200. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,200
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pan.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pain · pain · Spanish
pain · rank #36,200 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,200
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pages
Nearest frequency peer: pages (-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 “pain”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- orégano
orégano
63,804 corpus weight
- pages
pages
63,802 corpus weight
- pain
pain
63,801 corpus weight
- palabrería
palabrería
63,800 corpus weight
- Parral
Parral
63,799 corpus weight
- partidarias
partidarias
63,798 corpus weight
What this shows “pain” 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 | pain |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pɛ̃] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #36,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pain”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pain (IPA [pɛ̃]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,200 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pain, with forms such as "apin", "painn", and "pani". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pi", "paz", "pie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is pain, spelled P-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Pan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apin
- painn
- pani
- pian
- ppain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pain - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).