palmada
[palˈmað̞a]
The verdict
“palmada” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #43,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,161
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Golpe que se da con la palma de la mano.
Corpus desk
Index ES-palmada · palmada · Spanish
palmada · rank #43,161 · 10 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,161
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH paleontología
Nearest frequency peer: paleontología (-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 “palmada”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- paladín
paladín
56,842 corpus weight
- paleontolog…
paleontología
56,841 corpus weight
- palmada
palmada
56,840 corpus weight
- paternalista
paternalista
56,839 corpus weight
- patita
patita
56,838 corpus weight
- payasada
payasada
56,837 corpus weight
What this shows “palmada” 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 | palmada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [palˈmað̞a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “palmada”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around palmada (IPA [palˈmað̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,161 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for palmada, with forms such as "aplmada", "palamda", and "pallmada". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pasada", "parada", "palmas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is palmada, spelled P-A-L-M-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Golpe que se da con la palma de la mano.
- 2Golpe de la palma de una mano con la otra y el sonido así producido.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how palmada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dar una palmada suave en la espalda, es una muestra de afecto o aprobación.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplmada
- palamda
- pallmada
- palmaad
- palmadda
- palmdaa
- palmmada
- pamlada
- plamada
- ppalmada
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palmada - 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 "palmada", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).