protagonista
[pɾot̪aɣ̞oˈnist̪a]
The verdict
“protagonista” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,804. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,804
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dice del personaje principal de una obra a quien le suceden los hechos y hace las acciones.
Corpus desk
Index ES-protagonista · protagonista · Spanish
protagonista · rank #3,804 · 18 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,804
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH propietario
Nearest frequency peer: propietario (-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 “protagonista”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- móviles
móviles
96,200 corpus weight
- preparar
preparar
96,199 corpus weight
- propietario
propietario
96,198 corpus weight
- protagonista
protagonista
96,197 corpus weight
- Quito
Quito
96,196 corpus weight
- química
química
96,195 corpus weight
What this shows “protagonista” 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 | protagonista |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [pɾot̪aɣ̞oˈnist̪a] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #3,804 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “protagonista”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around protagonista (IPA [pɾot̪aɣ̞oˈnist̪a]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,804 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se dice del personaje principal de una obra a quien le suceden los hechos y hace las acciones.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for protagonista, with forms such as "portagonista", "pprotagonista", and "proatgonista". 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, "protagoniza", "protagonistas", "protagonismo", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is protagonista, spelled P-R-O-T-A-G-O-N-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Se dice del personaje principal de una obra a quien le suceden los hechos y hace las acciones.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- portagonista
- pprotagonista
- proatgonista
- protaggonista
- protagnoista
- protagoinsta
- protagonisat
- protagonissta
- protagonistta
- protagonitsa
- protagonnista
- protagonsita
- protaognista
- protgaonista
- prottagonista
- prrotagonista
- prtoagonista
- rpotagonista
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of protagonista - 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 "protagonista", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).