arcilla
[aɾˈsiʝa]
The verdict
“arcilla” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #12,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,974
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sustancia mineral, combinación de sílice y alúmina, que es dúctil cuando se humedece y que es usada para fabricar objetos de alfarería.
Corpus desk
Index ES-arcilla · arcilla · Spanish
arcilla · rank #12,974 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH artísticos
Nearest frequency peer: artísticos (+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 “arcilla”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- ansioso
ansioso
87,030 corpus weight
- anunciada
anunciada
87,029 corpus weight
- arcilla
arcilla
87,027 corpus weight
- artísticos
artísticos
87,026 corpus weight
- aspira
aspira
87,025 corpus weight
- atómica
atómica
87,024 corpus weight
What this shows “arcilla” 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 | arcilla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aɾˈsiʝa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “arcilla”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around arcilla (IPA [aɾˈsiʝa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,974 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sustancia mineral, combinación de sílice y alúmina, que es dúctil cuando se humedece y que es usada para fabricar objetos de alfarería.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for arcilla, with forms such as "acrilla", "arccilla", and "arcila". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ardilla", "Arriola", "astilla", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is arcilla, spelled A-R-C-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1Sustancia mineral, combinación de sílice y alúmina, que es dúctil cuando se humedece y que es usada para fabricar objetos de alfarería.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrilla
- arccilla
- arcila
- arcilal
- arclila
- ariclla
- arrcilla
- arsilla
- racilla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of arcilla - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).