patán
[paˈt̪ãn]
The verdict
“patán” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #39,908. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,908
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Falto de inteligencia y cultura.
Corpus desk
Index ES-patan · patán · Spanish
patán · rank #39,908 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,908
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pedante
Nearest frequency peer: pedante (+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 “patán”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- parador
parador
60,097 corpus weight
- parti
parti
60,096 corpus weight
- patán
patán
60,093 corpus weight
- pedante
pedante
60,092 corpus weight
- peleador
peleador
60,090 corpus weight
- peligrar
peligrar
60,089 corpus weight
What this shows “patán” 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 | patán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [paˈt̪ãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “patán”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around patán (IPA [paˈt̪ãn]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,908 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for patán, with forms such as "aptán", "patná", and "pattán". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plan", "puta", "pato", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is patán, spelled P-A-T-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Falto de inteligencia y cultura.
- 2Hombre grosero, descortés y falto de decoro, en especial con las mujeres.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptán
- patná
- pattán
- patánn
- paátn
- ppatán
- ptaán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patán - 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 "patán", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).