península
[peˈnĩnsula]
The verdict
“península” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,819
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porción de tierra que se encuentra rodeada por todas partes de agua, salvo por una franja relativamente estrecha, llamada istmo, que la une a una extensión de tierra mayor.
Corpus desk
Index ES-peninsula · península · Spanish
península · rank #4,819 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #4,819
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pendientes
Nearest frequency peer: pendientes (-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 “península”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- paraíso
paraíso
95,185 corpus weight
- pasen
pasen
95,184 corpus weight
- pendientes
pendientes
95,183 corpus weight
- península
península
95,182 corpus weight
- poderosa
poderosa
95,181 corpus weight
- posteriores
posteriores
95,180 corpus weight
What this shows “península” 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 | península |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [peˈnĩnsula] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #4,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “península”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around península (IPA [peˈnĩnsula]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,819 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Porción de tierra que se encuentra rodeada por todas partes de agua, salvo por una franja relativamente estrecha, llamada istmo, que la une a una extensión de tierra mayor.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for península, with forms such as "epnínsula", "pennínsula", and "pennísula". 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, "peninsular", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is península, spelled P-E-N-Í-N-S-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Porción de tierra que se encuentra rodeada por todas partes de agua, salvo por una franja relativamente estrecha, llamada istmo, que la une a una extensión de tierra mayor.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epnínsula
- pennínsula
- pennísula
- penínnsula
- penínslua
- penínssula
- penínsual
- penínsulla
- penínusla
- penísnula
- peínnsula
- pneínsula
- ppenínsula
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of península - 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 "península", 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).