verbal

Name: verbal, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[beɾˈβ̞al]

/[beɾˈβ̞al]/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“verbal” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,557. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,557
frequency rank, Spanish: 1,793
“V” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a la palabra, o la emplea.

Corpus desk

Index ES-verbal · verbal · Spanish

verbal · rank #9,557 · 11 variants · 17 confusables

FREQ-COMMON #9,557
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-MID 1,793
PHOTO-FINISH vacías

Nearest frequency peer: vacías (-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.

umbral

90,447
unieron

90,446
vacías

90,445
verbal

90,444
veré

90,443
visuales

90,441

What this shows “verbal” 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).

verbal vs verga

67% similar

verbal vs verbo

67% similar

verbal vs viral

67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for verbal
Property	Value
Headword	verbal
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	[beɾˈβ̞al]
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#9,557
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	17
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “verbal”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).verbalcae aquí:

#9,557

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “vacías” (#9,556), “veré” (#9,558), “unieron” (#9,555). Entre 1,793 lemas con “V”, “verbal” va en #9,557. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around verbal (IPA [beɾˈβ̞al]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,557 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for verbal, with forms such as "berbal", "evrbal", and "vebral". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "verga", "verbo", "viral", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is verbal, spelled V-E-R-B-A-L.

Definition

1
Que pertenece o concierne a la palabra, o la emplea.
2
Que se lleva a cabo con la voz y no a través de la escritura.
3
Que pertenece o concierne al verbo (tipo de palabra que contiene en sí marcas gramaticales de persona, número, tiempo, modo y aspecto).
4
Referido a una estructura sintáctica: Que tiene un verbo como su núcleo.
5
Se dice de una palabra que deriva de un verbo.

Synonyms

oral deverbaldebervativo

Antonyms

escrito

This word in other languages

verbal(English)verbal(Français)verbal(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

berbal
evrbal
vebral
verabl
verball
verbbal
verbla
verrbal
verval
vrebal
vverbal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verbal - 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.

Edit distance from "verbal"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "verbal"?

"verbal" is spelled V-E-R-B-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [beɾˈβ̞al].

What does "verbal" mean?

As an adjective, "verbal" means: Que pertenece o concierne a la palabra, o la emplea.

What words are commonly confused with "verbal"?

"verbal" is commonly confused with "verga", "verbo", "viral". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "verbal"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "verbal" is [beɾˈβ̞al]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "verbal" come from?

"verbal" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "verbal", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vacías#9,556 umbral#9,554 adulta#9,568 Stalin#9,543

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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