powerful
/ˈpaʊ.ə.fəl/
The verdict
“powerful” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #94,474 among 48,357 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,474
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 48,357
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Poderoso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-powerful · powerful · Spanish
powerful · rank #94,474 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,474
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 48,357
- PHOTO-FINISH poseídas
Nearest frequency peer: poseídas (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “powerful”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pletórico
pletórico
5,531 corpus weight
- poblando
poblando
5,530 corpus weight
- Portuondo
Portuondo
5,529 corpus weight
- poseídas
poseídas
5,528 corpus weight
- powerful
powerful
5,527 corpus weight
- practicable
practicable
5,526 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “powerful” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | powerful |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpaʊ.ə.fəl/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #94,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “powerful” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
powerful is uncommon Spanish at frequency #94,474 among 48,357 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈpaʊ.ə.fəl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poderoso.".
powerful doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 powerful, spelled P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Poderoso.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "powerful", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.