paranoia
[paɾaˈnoja]
The verdict
“paranoia” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,778
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trastorno mental que se caracteriza por la fijación de una idea o conjunto de ideas en la mente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-paranoia · paranoia · Spanish
paranoia · rank #17,778 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,778
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH paramos
Nearest frequency peer: paramos (-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 “paranoia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- orientadas
orientadas
82,226 corpus weight
- paladar
paladar
82,225 corpus weight
- paramos
paramos
82,224 corpus weight
- paranoia
paranoia
82,223 corpus weight
- parecieron
parecieron
82,222 corpus weight
- paridad
paridad
82,221 corpus weight
What this shows “paranoia” 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 | paranoia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paɾaˈnoja] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “paranoia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around paranoia (IPA [paɾaˈnoja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,778 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 paranoia, with forms such as "apranoia", "paarnoia", and "paranioa". 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, "pasantía", "paranoica", "paradoja", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 paranoia, spelled P-A-R-A-N-O-I-A.
Definition
- 1Trastorno mental que se caracteriza por la fijación de una idea o conjunto de ideas en la mente.
- 2Desconfianza extrema e irracional hacia los demás.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apranoia
- paarnoia
- paranioa
- parannoia
- paranoai
- paraonia
- parnaoia
- parranoia
- pparanoia
- praanoia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paranoia - 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 "paranoia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).