ráfaga
[ˈrafaɣ̞a]
The verdict
“ráfaga” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,855. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,855
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - El movimiento violento del aire que hiere repentinamente y que por lo común tiene poca duración.
Corpus desk
Index ES-rafaga · ráfaga · Spanish
ráfaga · rank #22,855 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,855
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Sabadell
Nearest frequency peer: Sabadell (+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 “ráfaga”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- roza
roza
77,150 corpus weight
- Rozas
Rozas
77,149 corpus weight
- ráfaga
ráfaga
77,146 corpus weight
- Sabadell
Sabadell
77,145 corpus weight
- sacará
sacará
77,144 corpus weight
- sacro
sacro
77,143 corpus weight
What this shows “ráfaga” 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 | ráfaga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈrafaɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #22,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ráfaga”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around ráfaga (IPA [ˈrafaɣ̞a]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,855 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for ráfaga, with forms such as "rfáaga", "rráfaga", and "ráafga". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ráfagas", "rafa", "Rafael", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ráfaga, spelled R-Á-F-A-G-A.
Definition
- 1El movimiento violento del aire que hiere repentinamente y que por lo común tiene poca duración.
- 2Cualquier nubecilla que aparece de poco cuerpo o densidad, especialmente cuando hay o quiere haber mutación de tiempo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rfáaga
- rráfaga
- ráafga
- ráfaag
- ráfagga
- ráffaga
- ráfgaa
- árfaga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ráfaga - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "ráfaga", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).