Acosta
[aˈkost̪a]
The verdict
“Acosta” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #9,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,754
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-acosta · Acosta · Spanish
Acosta · rank #9,754 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,754
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH activar
Nearest frequency peer: activar (+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 “Acosta”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ético
ético
90,251 corpus weight
- Abel
Abel
90,250 corpus weight
- Acosta
Acosta
90,247 corpus weight
- activar
activar
90,246 corpus weight
- adopta
adopta
90,245 corpus weight
- aerolíneas
aerolíneas
90,244 corpus weight
What this shows “Acosta” 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 | Acosta |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [aˈkost̪a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,754 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “Acosta”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Acosta (IPA [aˈkost̪a]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #9,754 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Apellido.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Acosta, with forms such as "accosta", "acosat", and "acossta". 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, "acta", "asta", "acusa", and more, 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Acosta, spelled A-C-O-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accosta
- acosat
- acossta
- acostta
- acotsa
- acsota
- aocsta
- caosta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Acosta - 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 "Acosta", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).