adulterio
[að̞ul̪ˈt̪eɾjo]
The verdict
“adulterio” has 12 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #20,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,245
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sexo que tiene una persona casada con alguien distinto a su cónyuge
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adulterio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [að̞ul̪ˈt̪eɾjo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adulterio” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around adulterio (IPA [að̞ul̪ˈt̪eɾjo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,245 among 120,137 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for adulterio, with forms such as "addulterio", "adluterio", and "aduletrio". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented 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 adulterio, spelled A-D-U-L-T-E-R-I-O.
Definition
- 1Sexo que tiene una persona casada con alguien distinto a su cónyuge
- 2Alteración del proceso natural de las cosas o de una ley divina o establecida
- 3Relación sexual con alguien distinto(a) a la propia pareja.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addulterio
- adluterio
- aduletrio
- adullterio
- adulteiro
- adulteroi
- adulterrio
- adultreio
- adultterio
- adutlerio
- audlterio
- daulterio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adulterio - 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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Using “adulterio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-U-L-T-E-R-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞ul̪ˈt̪eɾjo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.