tranvía
[t̪ɾãmˈbia]
The verdict
“tranvía” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,002. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,002
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,400
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vehículo que va sobre rieles por las calles de una ciudad, usando electricidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-tranvia · tranvía · Spanish
tranvía · rank #17,002 · 11 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,002
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,400
- PHOTO-FINISH transformarse
Nearest frequency peer: transformarse (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tranvía”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tramitación
tramitación
83,002 corpus weight
- trance
trance
83,001 corpus weight
- transformar…
transformarse
83,000 corpus weight
- tranvía
tranvía
82,999 corpus weight
- trasladaron
trasladaron
82,998 corpus weight
- trescientos
trescientos
82,997 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tranvía” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | tranvía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [t̪ɾãmˈbia] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tranvía” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tranvía (IPA [t̪ɾãmˈbia]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,002 among 34,400 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tranvía, with forms such as "rtanvía", "tarnvía", and "tranbía". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "trivia", "tranvías", "traía", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is tranvía, spelled T-R-A-N-V-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Vehículo que va sobre rieles por las calles de una ciudad, usando electricidad.
- 2Vehículo que circula sobre raíles por calles o por carreteras.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rtanvía
- tarnvía
- tranbía
- trannvía
- tranvaí
- tranvvía
- traníva
- travnía
- trnavía
- trranvía
- ttranvía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tranvía - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tranvía", 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).
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.