retornar
[ret̪oɾˈnaɾ]
The verdict
“retornar” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,808. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,808
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,151
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volver una persona o una cosa al lugar o situación en que estaba antes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-retornar · retornar · Spanish
retornar · rank #20,808 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,151
- PHOTO-FINISH rights
Nearest frequency peer: rights (+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 “retornar”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- repetida
repetida
79,196 corpus weight
- resolverse
resolverse
79,195 corpus weight
- retornar
retornar
79,193 corpus weight
- rights
rights
79,192 corpus weight
- rigurosa
rigurosa
79,191 corpus weight
- robadas
robadas
79,190 corpus weight
What this shows “retornar” 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 | retornar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ret̪oɾˈnaɾ] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #20,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “retornar”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around retornar (IPA [ret̪oɾˈnaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,808 among 4,151 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Volver una persona o una cosa al lugar o situación en que estaba antes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for retornar, with forms such as "ertornar", "reotrnar", and "retonrar". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "retorno", "retornos", "retirar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is retornar, spelled R-E-T-O-R-N-A-R.
Definition
- 1Volver una persona o una cosa al lugar o situación en que estaba antes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ertornar
- reotrnar
- retonrar
- retoranr
- retornarr
- retornnar
- retornra
- retorrnar
- retronar
- rettornar
- rretornar
- rteornar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of retornar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "retornar", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).