sobrante
[soˈβ̞ɾãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“sobrante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,123
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que sobra, que está demás.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sobrante · sobrante · Spanish
sobrante · rank #31,123 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,123
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH sintéticos
Nearest frequency peer: sintéticos (-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 “sobrante”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- señorial
señorial
68,882 corpus weight
- sia
sia
68,881 corpus weight
- since
since
68,880 corpus weight
- sintéticos
sintéticos
68,879 corpus weight
- sobrante
sobrante
68,878 corpus weight
- solucionan
solucionan
68,877 corpus weight
What this shows “sobrante” 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 | sobrante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [soˈβ̞ɾãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #31,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sobrante”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around sobrante (IPA [soˈβ̞ɾãn̪t̪e]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #31,123 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for sobrante, with forms such as "osbrante", "sborante", and "sobarnte". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "sobrantes", "sobran", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is sobrante, spelled S-O-B-R-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Que sobra, que está demás.
- 2Que no es necesario.
- 3Que burla, que falta al respeto o que se siente protegido o inmune sin fundamentos.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sobrante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En diálogo con el personal de tránsito, manifestaron que además estos jóvenes tuvieron una actitud sobrante ante los uniformados y dicha situación, ya que siempre hacían chistes o daban cuenta como que mañana se presentaban en el juzgado y listo
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osbrante
- sborante
- sobarnte
- sobbrante
- sobranet
- sobrannte
- sobrantte
- sobratne
- sobrnate
- sobrrante
- sorbante
- sovrante
- ssobrante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sobrante - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "sobrante", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).