penalizar
[penaliˈsaɾ]
The verdict
“penalizar” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #43,169. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,169
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sancionar severamente.
Corpus desk
Index ES-penalizar · penalizar · Spanish
penalizar · rank #43,169 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,169
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pegaban
Nearest frequency peer: pegaban (-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 “penalizar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pederasta
pederasta
56,835 corpus weight
- pediátrica
pediátrica
56,834 corpus weight
- pegaban
pegaban
56,833 corpus weight
- penalizar
penalizar
56,832 corpus weight
- Perea
Perea
56,831 corpus weight
- piercing
piercing
56,828 corpus weight
What this shows “penalizar” 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 | penalizar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [penaliˈsaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “penalizar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around penalizar (IPA [penaliˈsaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,169 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for penalizar, with forms such as "epnalizar", "peanlizar", and "penailzar". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "paralizar", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is penalizar, spelled P-E-N-A-L-I-Z-A-R.
Definition
- 1Sancionar severamente.
- 2Castigar un delito o una transgresión.
- 3Asignar la categoría de delito o falta y su correspondiente pena a una determinada acción u omisión.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how penalizar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lo penalizamos por violar el reglamento
El asesino fue penalizado a cadena perpetua
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnalizar
- peanlizar
- penailzar
- penaliazr
- penalizarr
- penalizra
- penalizzar
- penallizar
- penalziar
- penlaizar
- pennalizar
- pnealizar
- ppenalizar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penalizar - 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 "penalizar", 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).