ventilador

/[bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#12,950

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

ventilador is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]. Often confused with ventilar and ventiladores.

Key facts for ventilador
PropertyValue
Headwordventilador
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]
Letters10
Frequency rank#12,950
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ventilador in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ventilador is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,950 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for ventilador, with forms such as "bentilador", "evntilador", and "venitlador". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is ventilador, spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-A-D-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 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

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ventilador

Misspelling Variants of "ventilador"

bentilador10evntilador10venitlador10venntilador11ventialdor10ventiladdor11ventiladorr11ventiladro10
Misspelling Variants of "ventilador"

Frequency rank: #12,950 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ventilador"?
"ventilador" is spelled V-E-N-T-I-L-A-D-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ].
What does "ventilador" mean?
As a noun, "ventilador" means: 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...
What words are commonly confused with "ventilador"?
"ventilador" is commonly confused with "ventilar", "ventiladores". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ventilador"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ventilador" is [bẽn̪t̪ilaˈð̞oɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ventilador" come from?
"ventilador" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.