ancho
[ˈãnʲt͡ʃo]
The verdict
“ancho” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #3,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,533
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que tiene cierta anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana).
Corpus desk
Index ES-ancho · ancho · Spanish
ancho · rank #3,533 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,533
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aborto
Nearest frequency peer: aborto (-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 “ancho”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- árabe
árabe
96,471 corpus weight
- únicos
únicos
96,470 corpus weight
- aborto
aborto
96,469 corpus weight
- ancho
ancho
96,468 corpus weight
- apellido
apellido
96,467 corpus weight
- aprobado
aprobado
96,466 corpus weight
What this shows “ancho” 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 | ancho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈãnʲt͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ancho”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ancho (IPA [ˈãnʲt͡ʃo]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,533 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ancho, with forms such as "acnho", "anccho", and "anchho". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "año", "asco", "arco", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is ancho, spelled A-N-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Que tiene cierta anchura (la menor de las dimensiones de una figura plana).
- 2Que tiene mucha o excesiva anchura.
- 3Que es bastante más amplio que aquello que normalmente contiene; holgado.
- 4Que tiene considerable espacio, amplio.
- 5Que se expresa o se desenvuelve con libertad, sin inhibición o sin grandes limitaciones.
- 6Dicho de una norma, que no es muy estricta o limitante; que da espacio a la libertad.
- 7Que tiene gran tamaño, intensidad, importancia o impacto.
- 8Que se ufana o muestra una actitud de soberbia, vanidad o excesiva confianza en sí mismo/a.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ancho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El pantalón de bota ancha estuvo de moda en los años setenta.
Dijo una estupidez y se quedó tan ancho, como si no le importara lo que piensen otros.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acnho
- anccho
- anchho
- ancoh
- anhco
- anncho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ancho - 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).