parpadear
[paɾpað̞eˈaɾ]
The verdict
“parpadear” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #49,844. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,844
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cerrar y abrir los párpados del ojo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-parpadear · parpadear · Spanish
parpadear · rank #49,844 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,844
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH parmesano
Nearest frequency peer: parmesano (-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 “parpadear”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- parca
parca
50,159 corpus weight
- parmesano
parmesano
50,158 corpus weight
- parpadear
parpadear
50,157 corpus weight
- participaría
participaría
50,156 corpus weight
- partirse
partirse
50,155 corpus weight
- partían
partían
50,154 corpus weight
What this shows “parpadear” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parpadear |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [paɾpað̞eˈaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,844 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “parpadear”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around parpadear (IPA [paɾpað̞eˈaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,844 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for parpadear, with forms such as "aprpadear", "papradear", and "parapdear". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 parpadear, spelled P-A-R-P-A-D-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1Cerrar y abrir los párpados del ojo.
- 2Dicho de una fuente de luz, variar de intensidad, o encenderse y apagarse repetidamente y rítmicamente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parpadear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Esta se lo concedió con el agregado de tres besos que hicieron parpadear al coronel más que la metralla.
No le contestaba el muy imbécil, tampoco sudaba ni parpadeaba: ni un temblor, ni un músculo acá en la cara de esos que se mueven y levantan la piel sin afeitar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aprpadear
- papradear
- parapdear
- parpadaer
- parpaddear
- parpadearr
- parpadera
- parpaedar
- parpdaear
- parppadear
- parrpadear
- pparpadear
- prapadear
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of parpadear - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "parpadear", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).