pavor
[paˈβ̞oɾ]
The verdict
“pavor” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,258
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temor, con espanto o sobresalto.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pavor · pavor · Spanish
pavor · rank #34,258 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,258
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH paty
Nearest frequency peer: paty (-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 “pavor”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- participati…
participativos
65,747 corpus weight
- pasean
pasean
65,746 corpus weight
- paty
paty
65,744 corpus weight
- pavor
pavor
65,743 corpus weight
- pecas
pecas
65,741 corpus weight
- pedagógicos
pedagógicos
65,740 corpus weight
What this shows “pavor” 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 | pavor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈβ̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #34,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pavor”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pavor (IPA [paˈβ̞oɾ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,258 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Temor, con espanto o sobresalto.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pavor, with forms such as "apvor", "pabor", and "paovr". 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, "por", "peor", "poor", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is pavor, spelled P-A-V-O-R.
Definition
- 1Temor, con espanto o sobresalto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pavor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Sokolov averiguó los pormenores de la ejecución, un derroche de pólvora y sangre, del que corrió en boca la anécdota de que algunos disparos habían rebotado sin herir el cuerpo de las víctimas, un prodigio que causó pavor en los ya aterrorizados soldados».
«Eso fue demasiado para él que se desmayó a causa del pavor que le provocaba esa criatura».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apvor
- pabor
- paovr
- pavorr
- pavro
- pavvor
- ppavor
- pvaor
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pavor - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).