acné
[akˈne]
The verdict
“acné” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #25,506. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,506
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Afección cutánea causada por la obstrucción de los conductos de las glándulas sebáceas, formando pápulas y comedones, frecuente especialmente en la adolescencia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acne · acné · Spanish
acné · rank #25,506 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,506
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aclamado
Nearest frequency peer: aclamado (-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 “acné”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- abstracta
abstracta
74,499 corpus weight
- accedido
accedido
74,498 corpus weight
- acercarte
acercarte
74,497 corpus weight
- aclamado
aclamado
74,496 corpus weight
- acné
acné
74,495 corpus weight
- acostar
acostar
74,493 corpus weight
What this shows “acné” 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 | acné |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [akˈne] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “acné”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around acné (IPA [akˈne]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,506 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Afección cutánea causada por la obstrucción de los conductos de las glándulas sebáceas, formando pápulas y comedones, frecuente especialmente en la adolescencia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for acné, with forms such as "accné", "acnné", and "acén". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "ae", "año", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is acné, spelled A-C-N-É.
Definition
- 1Afección cutánea causada por la obstrucción de los conductos de las glándulas sebáceas, formando pápulas y comedones, frecuente especialmente en la adolescencia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acné appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Todo esto hace suponer una relación, si bien confusa, entre la secreción sebácea (y su secuela, el acné) y la secreción interna testicular.
Una de Las Tres Damas, vaya usted a saber cuál, la de la letra picuda que había eliminado la uve de su alfabeto, recuerda la preocupación colectiva cuando en el rostro del Vate, hasta entonces terso y delicado, aparecieron las avanzadillas del acné juvenil. Todas se disputaban el honor de reventárselas, todas le aplicaron simultánea o sucesivamente los re…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accné
- acnné
- acén
- ancé
- cané
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acné - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).