pantano
[pãn̪ˈt̪ano]
The verdict
“pantano” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,666. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,666
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hondonada donde se recogen y naturalmente se detienen las aguas, con fondo más o menos cenagoso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pantano · pantano · Spanish
pantano · rank #14,666 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,666
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH Orozco
Nearest frequency peer: Orozco (-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 “pantano”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- obediencia
obediencia
85,339 corpus weight
- odiaba
odiaba
85,338 corpus weight
- organizaron
organizaron
85,337 corpus weight
- Orozco
Orozco
85,336 corpus weight
- pantano
pantano
85,335 corpus weight
- parcela
parcela
85,334 corpus weight
What this shows “pantano” 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 | pantano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pãn̪ˈt̪ano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pantano”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pantano (IPA [pãn̪ˈt̪ano]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,666 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pantano, with forms such as "apntano", "panatno", and "panntano". 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 also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "patán", "pintan", "Patiño", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct Spanish form is pantano, spelled P-A-N-T-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Hondonada donde se recogen y naturalmente se detienen las aguas, con fondo más o menos cenagoso.
- 2Gran depósito de agua, que se forma generalmente cerrando la boca de un valle, y sirve para alimentar las acequias de riego.
- 3Dificultad, óbice, estorbo grande.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apntano
- panatno
- panntano
- pantanno
- pantaon
- pantnao
- panttano
- patnano
- pnatano
- ppantano
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pantano - 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 "pantano", 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).