realmente
The verdict
“realmente” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #412 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adverb.
- #412
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: En realidad; de manera real, efectiva o veraz.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | realmente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [reˌalˈmẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “realmente” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for realmente is 9 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [reˌalˈmẽn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #412 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En realidad; de manera real, efectiva o veraz.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for realmente, with forms such as "eralmente", "raelmente", and "realemnte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is realmente, spelled R-E-A-L-M-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En realidad; de manera real, efectiva o veraz.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eralmente,raelmente,realemnte,reallmente,realmenet,realmennte,realmentte,realmetne,realmmente,realmnete,reamlente,relamente,rrealmente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of realmente - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "realmente"
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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Using “realmente”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-E-A-L-M-E-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [reˌalˈmẽn̪t̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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