ventilador
[bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]
The verdict
“ventilador” has 16 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,950
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 12,062
- “V” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Máquina de fluido concebida para producir una corriente de aire mediante un rodete con aspas que giran produciendo una diferencia de presiones. Entre sus aplicaciones, destacan las de hacer circula...
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 | ventilador |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ventilador” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around ventilador (IPA [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,950 among 12,062 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Máquina de fluido concebida para producir una corriente de aire mediante un rodete con aspas que giran produciendo una diferencia de presiones. Entre sus aplicaciones, destacan las de hacer circula...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for ventilador, with forms such as "bentilador", "evntilador", and "venitlador". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "ventilar", "ventiladores", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is ventilador, spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-A-D-O-R.
Definition
- 1Máquina de fluido concebida para producir una corriente de aire mediante un rodete con aspas que giran produciendo una diferencia de presiones. Entre sus aplicaciones, destacan las de hacer circular y renovar el aire en un lugar cerrado para proporcionar oxígeno suficiente a los ocupantes y eliminar olores, principalmente en lugares cerrados; así como la de disminuir la resistencia de transmisión de calor por convección.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bentilador
- evntilador
- venitlador
- venntilador
- ventialdor
- ventiladdor
- ventiladorr
- ventiladro
- ventilaodr
- ventildaor
- ventillador
- ventliador
- venttilador
- vetnilador
- vnetilador
- vventilador
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ventilador - 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 “ventilador”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-N-T-I-L-A-D-O-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ventilar” - see the side-by-side comparison. ventilador vs ventilar
- 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.