Spanish
/ˈspæn.ɪʃ/
The verdict
“Spanish” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,679. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,679
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Español; perteneciente o relativo a España, sus habitantes, o al idioma español.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Spanish |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈspæn.ɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,679 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Spanish” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Spanish (IPA /ˈspæn.ɪʃ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,679 among 34,953 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Español; perteneciente o relativo a España, sus habitantes, o al idioma español.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Spanish, with forms such as "psanish", "sapnish", and "spainsh". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Spanish, spelled S-P-A-N-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Español; perteneciente o relativo a España, sus habitantes, o al idioma español.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: psanish,sapnish,spainsh,spanihs,spanishh,spanissh,spannish,spansih,spnaish,sppanish,sspanish
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Spanish - 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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Using “Spanish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-P-A-N-I-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈspæn.ɪʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.