water
/ˈwɔː.tə(ɹ)/
The verdict
“water” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #16,485. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,485
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 230
- “W” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agua.
Corpus desk
Index ES-water · water · Spanish
water · rank #16,485 · 7 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,485
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 230
- PHOTO-FINISH Western
Nearest frequency peer: Western (+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 “water”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- vid
vid
83,521 corpus weight
- visitaron
visitaron
83,518 corpus weight
- water
water
83,516 corpus weight
- Western
Western
83,515 corpus weight
- xenofobia
xenofobia
83,513 corpus weight
- yace
yace
83,512 corpus weight
What this shows “water” 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 | water |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈwɔː.tə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “water”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around water (IPA /ˈwɔː.tə(ɹ)/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,485 among 230 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Agua.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for water, with forms such as "awter", "waetr", and "waterr". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "wave", "weber", "winter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is water, spelled W-A-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Agua.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how water appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awter
- waetr
- waterr
- watre
- watter
- wtaer
- wwater
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of water - 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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).