simular
[simuˈlaɾ]
The verdict
“simular” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,199. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,199
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imitar, representar o fingir algo; dar la impresión de lo que no es; presentar una apariencia o semejanza como realidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-simular · simular · Spanish
simular · rank #20,199 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,199
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH severos
Nearest frequency peer: severos (-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 “simular”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- septentrion…
septentrional
79,805 corpus weight
- servían
servían
79,804 corpus weight
- severos
severos
79,803 corpus weight
- simular
simular
79,802 corpus weight
- singularidad
singularidad
79,801 corpus weight
- sirvientes
sirvientes
79,800 corpus weight
What this shows “simular” 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 | simular |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [simuˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “simular”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around simular (IPA [simuˈlaɾ]), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,199 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for simular, with forms such as "cimular", "ismular", and "simluar". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "situar", "singular", "simula", 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 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 simular, spelled S-I-M-U-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Imitar, representar o fingir algo; dar la impresión de lo que no es; presentar una apariencia o semejanza como realidad.
- 2Producir o crear algo de modo artificial, como imitación, modelo o réplica de otra cosa, para explorar su comportamiento, apariencia o propiedades bajo condiciones controladas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how simular appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se supone— hay varias versiones— que el empleado simuló su suicidio
El objetivo de su trabajo fue simular las condiciones reales de ventilación de invernaderos comerciales
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cimular
- ismular
- simluar
- simmular
- simualr
- simularr
- simullar
- simulra
- siumlar
- smiular
- ssimular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of simular - 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 "simular", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).