penalti
[peˈnal̪t̪i]
The verdict
“penalti” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #26,173. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,173
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Máxima pena que se puede aplicar en diversos deportes de balón, consistente en un lanzamiento sin barrera, desde una distancia prefijada, con la oportunidad de obtener un gol directo y con la única...
Corpus desk
Index ES-penalti · penalti · Spanish
penalti · rank #26,173 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,173
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH patéticos
Nearest frequency peer: patéticos (-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 “penalti”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pagaste
pagaste
73,832 corpus weight
- paramilitar
paramilitar
73,831 corpus weight
- patéticos
patéticos
73,829 corpus weight
- penalti
penalti
73,828 corpus weight
- penetra
penetra
73,827 corpus weight
- perdonó
perdonó
73,825 corpus weight
What this shows “penalti” 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 | penalti |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈnal̪t̪i] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #26,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “penalti”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around penalti (IPA [peˈnal̪t̪i]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,173 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Máxima pena que se puede aplicar en diversos deportes de balón, consistente en un lanzamiento sin barrera, desde una distancia prefijada, con la oportunidad de obtener un gol directo y con la única...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for penalti, with forms such as "epnalti", "peanlti", and "penalit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Peralta", "penales", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 penalti, spelled P-E-N-A-L-T-I.
Definition
- 1Máxima pena que se puede aplicar en diversos deportes de balón, consistente en un lanzamiento sin barrera, desde una distancia prefijada, con la oportunidad de obtener un gol directo y con la única oposición del guardameta.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnalti
- peanlti
- penalit
- penallti
- penaltti
- penatli
- penlati
- pennalti
- pnealti
- ppenalti
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of penalti - 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 "penalti", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).