sorprendente
[soɾpɾẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“sorprendente” has 19 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,949
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 19
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que causa sorpresa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sorprendente · sorprendente · Spanish
sorprendente · rank #4,949 · 19 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,949
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 19 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH Sonora
Nearest frequency peer: Sonora (-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 “sorprendente”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- Smith
Smith
95,055 corpus weight
- solía
solía
95,054 corpus weight
- Sonora
Sonora
95,053 corpus weight
- sorprendente
sorprendente
95,052 corpus weight
- soviética
soviética
95,051 corpus weight
- Steve
Steve
95,050 corpus weight
What this shows “sorprendente” 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 | sorprendente |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [soɾpɾẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #4,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 19 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “sorprendente”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 19 spelling variants around sorprendente (IPA [soɾpɾẽn̪ˈd̪ẽn̪t̪e]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #4,949 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for sorprendente, with forms such as "osrprendente", "soprrendente", and "sorperndente". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sorprenderse", "sorprendentes", "sorprenden", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is sorprendente, spelled S-O-R-P-R-E-N-D-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Que causa sorpresa.
- 2Que es inusual o fuera de lo común.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sorprendente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Los fenómenos sociales, a cuál más inesperado y sorprendente, se suceden sin interrupción. Diré que la sociedad es un barco. Vienen vientos de donde menos se espera, y se levanta cada ola...
El ramillete ofrecido por cierta florista resultó un objeto tan extraño y sorprendente, que necesitó Juan algún tiempo para comprender su naturaleza
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osrprendente
- soprrendente
- sorperndente
- sorpprendente
- sorprednente
- sorprenddente
- sorprendenet
- sorprendennte
- sorprendentte
- sorprendetne
- sorprendnete
- sorprenednte
- sorprenndente
- sorprnedente
- sorprrendente
- sorrpendente
- sorrprendente
- sroprendente
- ssorprendente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sorprendente - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (19 here; floor ≥5).