verbal
[beɾˈβ̞al]
The verdict
“verbal” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,557 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #9,557
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que pertenece o concierne a la palabra, o la emplea.
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 | 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) |
Where “verbal” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for verbal is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [beɾˈβ̞al]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,557 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Que pertenece o concierne a la palabra, o la emplea.
- 2Que se lleva a cabo con la voz y no a través de la escritura.
- 3Que pertenece o concierne al verbo (tipo de palabra que contiene en sí marcas gramaticales de persona, número, tiempo, modo y aspecto).
- 4Referido a una estructura sintáctica: Que tiene un verbo como su núcleo.
- 5Se dice de una palabra que deriva de un verbo.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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.
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 “verbal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-E-R-B-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [beɾˈβ̞al] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “verga” - see the side-by-side comparison. verbal vs verga
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.