represalia
[repɾeˈsalja]
The verdict
“represalia” has 14 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #21,138. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,138
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Derecho que se arrogan los enemigos para causarse recíprocamente igual o mayor daño que el que han recibido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-represalia · represalia · Spanish
represalia · rank #21,138 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,138
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH represa
Nearest frequency peer: represa (-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 “represalia”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- reliquia
reliquia
78,866 corpus weight
- represa
represa
78,864 corpus weight
- represalia
represalia
78,863 corpus weight
- resistencias
resistencias
78,862 corpus weight
- restablecim…
restablecimiento
78,861 corpus weight
- RM
RM
78,859 corpus weight
What this shows “represalia” 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 | represalia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [repɾeˈsalja] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #21,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “represalia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around represalia (IPA [repɾeˈsalja]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,138 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for represalia, with forms such as "erpresalia", "repersalia", and "reppresalia". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "represalias", "regresaría", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is represalia, spelled R-E-P-R-E-S-A-L-I-A.
Definition
- 1Derecho que se arrogan los enemigos para causarse recíprocamente igual o mayor daño que el que han recibido.
- 2Retención de los bienes de una nación con quien se está en guerra, o (retención) de sus individuos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how represalia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
en represalia a la burla ahorcó a siete modestos campesinos.
empezó a injuriarlo por primera vez en su larga vida de casados. Y las injurias brotaron primero inteligentes y sagaces, luego tan absurdas e injustas que calló de golpe, avergonzada, dispuesta de antemano a toda represalia.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erpresalia
- repersalia
- reppresalia
- repreaslia
- represaila
- represalai
- represallia
- represlaia
- repressalia
- reprresalia
- reprsealia
- rerpesalia
- rperesalia
- rrepresalia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of represalia - 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 "represalia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).