talibán
[t̪aliˈβ̞ãn]
The verdict
“talibán” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #37,343. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,343
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a un grupo armado, fundamentalista religioso y nacionalista afgano, que gobernó Afganistán hacia fines de la década de 1990 y mantiene actividad insurgente en el...
Corpus desk
Index ES-taliban · talibán · Spanish
talibán · rank #37,343 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,343
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH súbito
Nearest frequency peer: súbito (-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 “talibán”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sustituyen
sustituyen
62,661 corpus weight
- sádico
sádico
62,660 corpus weight
- súbito
súbito
62,659 corpus weight
- talibán
talibán
62,658 corpus weight
- tamarindo
tamarindo
62,657 corpus weight
- tapando
tapando
62,656 corpus weight
What this shows “talibán” 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 | talibán |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [t̪aliˈβ̞ãn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “talibán”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around talibán (IPA [t̪aliˈβ̞ãn]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,343 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for talibán, with forms such as "atlibán", "tailbán", and "talbián". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "talismán", "talibanes", "Taiwan", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is talibán, spelled T-A-L-I-B-Á-N.
Definition
- 1Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a un grupo armado, fundamentalista religioso y nacionalista afgano, que gobernó Afganistán hacia fines de la década de 1990 y mantiene actividad insurgente en el país desde entonces.
- 2Por analogía con el integrismo de este grupo, de creencias radicales e intransigentes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how talibán appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Además de contener la violencia en Karachi, el Gobierno afronta la insurgencia talibana y la tarea de reconstruir las zonas devastadas por las inundaciones de agosto, que causaron daños por 9.700 millones de dólares.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atlibán
- tailbán
- talbián
- talibbán
- talibná
- talibánn
- taliván
- taliábn
- tallibán
- tlaibán
- ttalibán
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of talibán - 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 "talibán", 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).