puñado
[puˈɲað̞o]
The verdict
“puñado” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,188
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Medida de cuantificación, que abarca aproximadamente lo que cabe en un puño de la mano.
Corpus desk
Index ES-punado · puñado · Spanish
puñado · rank #9,188 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,188
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH puros
Nearest frequency peer: puros (-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 “puñado”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- protegidos
protegidos
90,816 corpus weight
- provienen
provienen
90,815 corpus weight
- puros
puros
90,814 corpus weight
- puñado
puñado
90,813 corpus weight
- record
record
90,811 corpus weight
- regalar
regalar
90,810 corpus weight
What this shows “puñado” 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 | puñado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [puˈɲað̞o] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “puñado”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around puñado (IPA [puˈɲað̞o]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,188 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for puñado, with forms such as "ppuñado", "puañdo", and "puñaddo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puño", "punto", "puñal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is puñado, spelled P-U-Ñ-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Medida de cuantificación, que abarca aproximadamente lo que cabe en un puño de la mano.
- 2Cantidad pequeña de algo que debería ser más abundante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puñado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Al concierto fue un puñado de gente.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppuñado
- puañdo
- puñaddo
- puñaod
- puñdao
- pñuado
- upñado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puñado - 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 "puñado", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).