sardina
[saɾˈð̞ina]
The verdict
“sardina” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #29,394. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,394
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cualquiera de numerosas especies de peces de la familia de los clupeidos, abundantes en todo el mundo, muy apreciados en gastronomía; la especie a la que originalmente se aplicó el término es Sardi...
Corpus desk
Index ES-sardina · sardina · Spanish
sardina · rank #29,394 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,394
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH saquearon
Nearest frequency peer: saquearon (-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 “sardina”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Sanabria
Sanabria
70,610 corpus weight
- sangrientas
sangrientas
70,609 corpus weight
- saquearon
saquearon
70,608 corpus weight
- sardina
sardina
70,607 corpus weight
- satisfactor…
satisfactoriamente
70,606 corpus weight
- screen
screen
70,604 corpus weight
What this shows “sardina” 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 | sardina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [saɾˈð̞ina] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sardina”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around sardina (IPA [saɾˈð̞ina]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,394 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for sardina, with forms such as "asrdina", "sadrina", and "sarddina". 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, "sarna", "saudita", "sardinas", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is sardina, spelled S-A-R-D-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera de numerosas especies de peces de la familia de los clupeidos, abundantes en todo el mundo, muy apreciados en gastronomía; la especie a la que originalmente se aplicó el término es Sardina pilchardus, pero el nombre no se corresponde exactamente con ninguna taxonomía científica.
- 2Carne de la sardina₁, apreciada como alimento.
- 3Escondidas en donde todos cuentan, uno se esconde y luego quienes van encontrando al que está escondido se van sumando con él hasta que quede el último.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sardina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pescaron muchos pescados como los de Castilla: albures, salmones, pijotas, gallos, pámpanos, lisas, corvinas, camarones y vieron sardinas.
Y diesen a los que anduviesen en las minas pan e ají e todo lo que ubiesen menester, y le diesen a cada uno una libra de carne cada día, y el día que no fuese de carne les diesen pescado, sardinas o otras cosas, con que fuesen mantenidos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asrdina
- sadrina
- sarddina
- sardian
- sardinna
- sardnia
- saridna
- sarrdina
- sradina
- ssardina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sardina - 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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Same letter count
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