prolongar
[pɾolõŋˈgaɾ]
The verdict
“prolongar” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,451. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,451
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hacer más largo espacialmente, alargar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-prolongar · prolongar · Spanish
prolongar · rank #21,451 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,451
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH publiquen
Nearest frequency peer: publiquen (+2 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 “prolongar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Prada
Prada
78,554 corpus weight
- precario
precario
78,553 corpus weight
- prolongar
prolongar
78,550 corpus weight
- publiquen
publiquen
78,548 corpus weight
- puertorriqu…
puertorriqueña
78,547 corpus weight
- póster
póster
78,546 corpus weight
What this shows “prolongar” 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 | prolongar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [pɾolõŋˈgaɾ] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “prolongar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around prolongar (IPA [pɾolõŋˈgaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #21,451 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for prolongar, with forms such as "porlongar", "pprolongar", and "prloongar". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "proponga", "propongan", "prolonga", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is prolongar, spelled P-R-O-L-O-N-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1Hacer más largo espacialmente, alargar.
- 2Hacer más largo en términos de tiempo, hacer que dure más.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- porlongar
- pprolongar
- prloongar
- prollongar
- prolnogar
- prolognar
- prolonagr
- prolongarr
- prolonggar
- prolongra
- prolonngar
- proolngar
- prrolongar
- rpolongar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prolongar - 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 "prolongar", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).