preservar
[pɾeseɾˈβ̞aɾ]
The verdict
“preservar” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #8,299. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,299
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poner a cubierto anticipadamente a una persona o cosa para protegerla de un daño.
Corpus desk
Index ES-preservar · preservar · Spanish
preservar · rank #8,299 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,299
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH preguntaron
Nearest frequency peer: preguntaron (-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 “preservar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- plantear
plantear
91,706 corpus weight
- potencias
potencias
91,704 corpus weight
- preguntaron
preguntaron
91,703 corpus weight
- preservar
preservar
91,702 corpus weight
- propósitos
propósitos
91,700 corpus weight
- pulso
pulso
91,699 corpus weight
What this shows “preservar” 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 | preservar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾeseɾˈβ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “preservar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around preservar (IPA [pɾeseɾˈβ̞aɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,299 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Poner a cubierto anticipadamente a una persona o cosa para protegerla de un daño.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for preservar, with forms such as "perservar", "ppreservar", and "precervar". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "preserva", "presentar", "preservado", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is preservar, spelled P-R-E-S-E-R-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1Poner a cubierto anticipadamente a una persona o cosa para protegerla de un daño.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- perservar
- ppreservar
- precervar
- preesrvar
- preseravr
- preserbar
- preserrvar
- preservarr
- preservra
- preservvar
- presevrar
- presrevar
- presservar
- prreservar
- prseervar
- rpeservar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of preservar - 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 "preservar", 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 (16 here; floor ≥5).