regañadientes
[reɣ̞aɲaˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]
The verdict
“regañadientes” has 18 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #36,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,792
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expresión de disgusto, rabia o rechazo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-reganadientes · regañadientes · Spanish
regañadientes · rank #36,792 · 18 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,792
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH regalen
Nearest frequency peer: regalen (-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 “regañadientes”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- recubrimien…
recubrimiento
63,213 corpus weight
- recuperará
recuperará
63,212 corpus weight
- regalen
regalen
63,210 corpus weight
- regañadient…
regañadientes
63,209 corpus weight
- renovados
renovados
63,207 corpus weight
- reporter
reporter
63,206 corpus weight
What this shows “regañadientes” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | regañadientes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [reɣ̞aɲaˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #36,792 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “regañadientes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around regañadientes (IPA [reɣ̞aɲaˈð̞jẽn̪t̪es]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,792 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Expresión de disgusto, rabia o rechazo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for regañadientes, with forms such as "ergañadientes", "reagñadientes", and "regaañdientes". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is regañadientes, spelled R-E-G-A-Ñ-A-D-I-E-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Expresión de disgusto, rabia o rechazo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regañadientes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Baldomero pagó a la florista y balbuceó algo que parecía un regañadientes: "Hasta luego", y abandonó la florería
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergañadientes
- reagñadientes
- regaañdientes
- regañaddientes
- regañadeintes
- regañadienets
- regañadienntes
- regañadientess
- regañadientse
- regañadienttes
- regañadietnes
- regañadinetes
- regañaidentes
- regañdaientes
- reggañadientes
- regñaadientes
- rgeañadientes
- rregañadientes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regañadientes - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).