pesadilla
[pesaˈð̞iʝa]
The verdict
“pesadilla” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #7,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,477
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sueño angustioso y desagradable.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pesadilla · pesadilla · Spanish
pesadilla · rank #7,477 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,477
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH peruanos
Nearest frequency peer: peruanos (-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 “pesadilla”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- pecados
pecados
92,527 corpus weight
- pertenecer
pertenecer
92,526 corpus weight
- peruanos
peruanos
92,525 corpus weight
- pesadilla
pesadilla
92,524 corpus weight
- plomo
plomo
92,523 corpus weight
- policiales
policiales
92,521 corpus weight
What this shows “pesadilla” 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 | pesadilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [pesaˈð̞iʝa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “pesadilla”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pesadilla (IPA [pesaˈð̞iʝa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,477 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pesadilla, with forms such as "epsadilla", "peasdilla", and "pesaddilla". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pesadillas", "Padilla", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 pesadilla, spelled P-E-S-A-D-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Sueño angustioso y desagradable.
- 2Preocupación intensa y aquello que la causa.
- 3Dificultad para respirar mientras se duerme.
- 4Persona molesta o cargante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pesadilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El cetáceo no era otro que Aquilino de la Hinojosa, metido en aquel disfraz para devorar a su cónyuge infiel. Entre las mandíbulas del monstruo marino estaba ya cuando despertó de la pesadilla
Durante mucho tiempo, su melancólica silueta quijotesca ha sido la pesadilla de golillas y de ministriles
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epsadilla
- peasdilla
- pesaddilla
- pesadila
- pesadilal
- pesadlila
- pesaidlla
- pesdailla
- pessadilla
- ppesadilla
- pseadilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pesadilla - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).