trabajo
[t̪ɾaˈβ̞axo]
The verdict
“trabajo” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #119
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acción o efecto de trabajar (ocuparse en una actividad).
Corpus desk
Index ES-trabajo · trabajo · Spanish
trabajo · rank #119 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #119
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tener
Nearest frequency peer: tener (-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 “trabajo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- sea
sea
99,885 corpus weight
- había
había
99,884 corpus weight
- tener
tener
99,883 corpus weight
- trabajo
trabajo
99,882 corpus weight
- durante
durante
99,881 corpus weight
- ellos
ellos
99,880 corpus weight
What this shows “trabajo” 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 | trabajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ɾaˈβ̞axo] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “trabajo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around trabajo (IPA [t̪ɾaˈβ̞axo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #119 among 3,005 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for trabajo, with forms such as "rtabajo", "tarbajo", and "traabjo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "trajo", "trabas", "trabar", and more, 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 trabajo, spelled T-R-A-B-A-J-O.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de trabajar (ocuparse en una actividad).
- 2En particular, trabajo₁ que se desempeña regularmente, en especial si por una retribución o remuneración.
- 3Cosa producida mediante el trabajo₁.
- 4Lugar donde se desempeña el trabajo₂.
- 5Factor de la producción obtenido directamente del trabajo₂ humano.
- 6Magnitud escalar producto de la magnitud de una fuerza por la distancia que ella recorre.
- 7Situación difícil o apurada.
- 8Situación penosa o infeliz.
- 9Fórmula o ritual con efectos mágicos.
- 10Por extensión, cualquier actividad remunerada o con fines de lucro.
- 11Informe escrito producto de la investigación acerca de un tema específico.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how trabajo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hoy llegué temprano al trabajo.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtabajo
- tarbajo
- traabjo
- trabajjo
- trabaoj
- trabbajo
- trabjao
- travajo
- trbaajo
- trrabajo
- ttrabajo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trabajo - 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 "trabajo", 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).