verbena
[beɾˈβ̞ena]
The verdict
“verbena” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #34,396. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,396
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Verbena spp.) Cualquiera de unas 250 especies de plantas de flor, aromáticas y muy rústicas, nativas de todo el globo, cultivadas desde la Antigüedad como ornamentales, medicinales y como ofrendas...
Corpus desk
Index ES-verbena · verbena · Spanish
verbena · rank #34,396 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #34,396
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH ventanales
Nearest frequency peer: ventanales (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “verbena”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- vehemencia
vehemencia
65,608 corpus weight
- venenosas
venenosas
65,607 corpus weight
- ventanales
ventanales
65,606 corpus weight
- verbena
verbena
65,605 corpus weight
- vetar
vetar
65,604 corpus weight
- viles
viles
65,602 corpus weight
What this shows “verbena” 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).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | verbena |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beɾˈβ̞ena] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “verbena”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around verbena (IPA [beɾˈβ̞ena]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,396 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for verbena, with forms such as "berbena", "evrbena", and "vebrena". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "vereda", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 verbena, spelled V-E-R-B-E-N-A.
Definition
- 1(Verbena spp.) Cualquiera de unas 250 especies de plantas de flor, aromáticas y muy rústicas, nativas de todo el globo, cultivadas desde la Antigüedad como ornamentales, medicinales y como ofrendas religiosas
- 2Fiesta popular nocturna y al aire libre, con música y baile
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- berbena
- evrbena
- vebrena
- verbbena
- verbean
- verbenna
- verbnea
- verebna
- verrbena
- vervena
- vrebena
- vverbena
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of verbena - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "verbena", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).